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settling pond [′set·liŋ ‚pänd]

(mining engineering)

A natural or artificial pond for recovering the solids from an effluent.

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Ritzman said his department informed the DEQ, as is required by law, when a settling pond became too full of sediment, causing water to overflow into the creek.

Chlorine spills to cost Newport fine of $61,533 by The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)

The site features a two-stage settling pond system with a gravity pipeline to another waste water system at the original Nickel Rim mine site.

Nickel Rim South exploring underlying footwall by Ross, Ian / Northern Ontario Business

A female was seen in a Gary Sanitary District settling pond on 9 and 10 August 1986 (Peterjohn 1987).

Birds of the Grand Calumet River basin by Brock, Kenneth J. / Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science

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