Hanford workers began pumping radioactive sludge Thursday evening from a double-shell waste storage tank at the nuclear reservation with an interior leak. By 2 p.m. Friday, contractor Washington ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - The Navy Closure Task-Force Red Hill will soon begin removing sludge from two of the 14 drained fuel tanks. Sludge is a mix of fuel, water, dirt, and metal found at the ...

Biff Burns just wants to farm his Maryland fields. But neighbors object to his fertilizer, poultry "sludge" stored in a 3-million gallon tank.

The oil runs through a simple grid to remove some of the sludge and is pumped to a separator tank. The crushed oil sits in the tank for one to two days.

Waste water enters the separator via an inlet pipe in the side of the tank, which at Budds Farm measures 7m across and 11m tall, and passes up the central core.

The tank was being drained so the sludge that settles to the bottom could be cleaned out. Berberian claims in the lawsuit that the sludge was also pumped into the storm drain, and that it ...