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Cleanup

Environmental remediation, the removal of pollution or contaminants from environmental media

Clean-up, a part of the workflow in the production of hand-drawn animation


100 Watt Smile

Indeed, the 1999 debut album of the second lineup, And Reason Flew, begins with an updated version of Bradley's haunting song New Jersey, which first appeared on the Ed's Redeeming Qualities album Big Grapefruit Cleanup Job.

1964 Pulitzer Prize

James V. Magee and Albert V. Gaudiosi, reporters and Frederick Meyer, photographer of the Philadelphia Bulletin, for their expose of numbers racket operations with police collusion in South Philadelphia, which resulted in arrests and a cleanup of the police department.

Aftermath: The Remnants of War

Filmed on location in Russia, France, Bosnia and Vietnam, the documentary features personal accounts of individuals involved in the cleanup of war: from de-miners, psychologists working with distraught soldiers, a treasure hunter turned archeologist in Stalingrad, and scientists and doctors struggling with the contamination of dioxin used in the Vietnam War.

Albany Research Center

As part of Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program (FUSRAP) cleanup operations, a radiological survey was conducted of the site in 1985.

Albert Patterson

Ace Atkins wrote a novelization of the events surrounding Patterson's assassination and the ensuing cleanup of Phenix City, entitled Wicked City.

Bleeping Computer

All services to the public are free, including malware and rootkit cleanup of infected computers and removal instructions on rogue anti-spyware programs.

Brownfield status

Examples include the cleanup and redevelopment of former and current ship building facilities along Copenhagen’s historic waterfront.

Bruce Allan Clark

During his time as mayor, Clark achieved success for the town in a variety of ways, perhaps most notable is the cleanup project of Glace Bay's sewage area, spearheading the development of Renwick Brook.

Carl Garner

He served as resident engineer of Greers Ferry Lake since its construction in 1959, and in that capacity, he organized a citizen cleanup of the area which expanded to Carl Garner Federal Lands Cleanup Day.

Carl Garner Federal Lands Cleanup Day

It was created in 1985 by the Federal Lands Cleanup Act as the "Federal Lands National Cleanup Day" and renamed in 1995 to honor Carl Garner and continue and expand his work of encouraging citizens to clean up Greers Ferry Lake and Little Red River in Arkansas.

Finnish pollution control vessel Halli

Halli (899) is a modified, enlarged Hylje-design, and acts as a combined pollution cleanup and vehicle transport ship.

Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program

The Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program (FUSRAP) is a United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) project to manage and cleanup environmental contamination that resulted from early United States Atomic Energy Commission activities.

Gerry Pollet

At the time of his appointment to the legislature, Pollet was serving as executive director of Heart of America Northwest, a watchdog group focused on the Hanford Nuclear Reservation cleanup.

Henry McNamara

McNamara sponsored New Jersey’s open space trust fund, wrote the law to clean up underground storage tanks, re-wrote the laws governing toxic waste cleanup and led the way for a Brownfields law – a plan to get private investors to clean up polluted industrial sites and make those sites clean and useful again.

Henry's Knob

While some efforts have been made to repopulate the site with vegetation, little cleanup of the dangerous minerals (including Manganese) has been done.

Hutchinson Correctional Facility

Low security inmates at HCF have the opportunity to work on several projects such as highway maintenance, cleanup and maintenance at the annual state fair, assisting various public works departments of the city of Hutchinson and maintenance at Cheney State Park.

Ian Somerhalder

Somerhalder was involved in the cleanup after the Deepwater Horizon oil drilling disaster on April 22, 2010.

Lynne Cherry

Other books include Flute's Journey (a book about bird migration) and A River Ran Wild (which discusses the cleanup of the Nashua River in Massachusetts).

Mutanabbi Street

On December 18, 2008, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki officially reopened the street after a long period of cleanup and repair.

NCAA Season 84 basketball tournaments

The basketball tournaments of National Collegiate Athletic Association (Philippines) 84th season hosted by the Mapúa Institute of Technology began on June 28 at the Araneta Coliseum with Metropolitan Manila Development Authority chairman Bayani Fernando as the keynote speaker (however, Fernando was later tasked to lead the cleanup efforts caused by Typhoon Frank, he sent his daughter instead).

Nishapur train disaster

During the cleanup operation, the cargo of the wagons exploded, reportedly the equivalent of 180 tons of TNT, which demolished Khayyam, badly damaged the nearby towns of `Eyshabad, Dehnow, Nishapur and Taqiabad, Nishapur, and could be felt in the city of Mashhad, 70 kilometers away.

Norumbega Park

Since then, cleanup has been a major concern for local municipalities and the EPA.

Raj Goyle

When he was 15, Goyle was an organizer in a community-wide recycling program that removed hundreds of pounds of garbage from the county landfill and led to a cleanup of the Arkansas River in downtown Wichita.

Saint-Michel-en-Grève

In 2009 huge quantities of Ulva lactuca washed up on the beach at Saint Michel, causing the deaths of a horse and a cleanup crew truck driver.

Sherri W. Goodman

Goodman has also published articles on climate change, energy, environmental security, weapons acquisition and nuclear energy and waste cleanup in a wide variety of publications, among them The Washington Post, The National Interest and Defense News.

Times Beach, Missouri

Subsequent research on the effects of dioxin on humans and other mammals has led some experts to question whether the evacuation of the town was necessary, sometimes citing the example of Seveso, Italy, the site of a disaster in 1976 that exposed residents to larger levels of dioxin than those of Times Beach and whose subsequent cleanup allowed the city to continue to exist.

Vac-Tron

Models of Vac-Tron Equipment have been chosen for projects as diverse as the laying of HVAC cable at the Statue of Liberty, the digging of fence posts for the American Embassy in Moscow, and cleanup of the BP oil spill which occurred recently in the Gulf of Mexico.

Voluntary association

In California, during the 1980s, then Los Angeles district attorney Ira Reiner decided to use California's unincorporated associations law to attack street gangs and the habit of their members of tagging graffiti in public spaces, in an attempt to abate vandalism and to recover cleanup costs.

West Hatch

During the cleanup operation after the beaching of the MSC Napoli cargo ship off the coast of Devon in January 2007, the majority of seabirds covered in oil were sent to the West Hatch RSPCA to be cleaned.

Zilwaukee Bridge

Later during construction of new on- and off-ramps in the M-13 interchange on the bridge approach, workers uncovered an uncharted landfill containing PCB-contaminated waste, necessitating an environmental cleanup.


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