Seabees Drill for Water as Part of Deployment to Peru
Boart Longyear Acquires Westrod Engineering
Researchers Drill a Nearly 500-foot Ice Core
Drilling Blamed for Mud Volcano
Scientists Develop Model to Map Arsenic Contamination
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Seabees Drill for Water as
Part of Deployment to Peru
Eighteen U.S. Navy Seabees are
midway through the completion of a water well construction project in
support of New Horizons-Peru 2008, a humanitarian effort focused on
bringing vital quality-of-life projects to the people of the Ayacucho
region. The team of construction engineers is scheduled to construct
two wells by mid-August.
Researchers Drill a Nearly 500-foot Ice Core A ice core longer than 1.5
football fields drilled in the McCall Glacier in the Arctic National
Wildlife Refuge this summer may offer researchers their first
quantitative look at up to two centuries of climate change in the
region.
Drilling Blamed
For Mud Volcano A mud volcano, which has
caused millions of dollars worth of damage, was caused by the drilling
of a gas exploration well, a team of scientists has
concluded. The two-year-old mud volcano, Lusi, still is spewing huge
volumes of mud, and has displaced more than 30,000 people.
Scientists DevelopNew Model to Map Arsenic Contamination
A new method of detecting arsenic contamination without ground water
analysis shows that Southeast Asia is at high risk for excessive levels
in its ground water. Based on surface sediments and soil properties,
the new model enables
accurate conclusions to be drawn regarding chemical and
physical conditions in ground water.
Elderly Woman Drowns in Well A
75-year-old South African woman drowned while trying to draw water from
a village well. The lack of tap water in the village makes visits to
the well necessary for both consumption and household use. The water
shortage is blamed on "common thugs" who vandalized a number of
boreholes. It's such third incident since 2006 - two other elderly
villagers also have died while trying to get water from the well.
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