Enough coal ash slurry to fill 800 Olympic swimming pools swallowed a town in 2008, carrying toxins, sickness and bitter ...

They were found in a sludge pond in Spartanburg covered in oil. "Getting into a sludge pond, getting covered in something can cause their wings to harden and not fly.

Behind the Little Lagoon Mobile Home Park subdivision in Gulf Shores, Ala., is a large sludge pond serving the Baldwin County Sewer Service's plant on Fort Morgan Road in Gulf Shores, Ala.

It will take several years to remove all of the sludge in the pond. Sellafield Ltd said the sludge removal project is being delivered ten years ahead of schedule and for half the predicted £200 ...