| 1. | The park was established on land formerly occupied by a tailings pond.
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| 2. | Opponents fear that a tailings pond could fail and contaminate streams.
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| 3. | In May 2008, tailings ponds covered approximately 130 km2 of Alberta.
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| 4. | Opponents fear a tailings pond could fail and contaminate streams.
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| 5. | By 2009, Suncor was working to reduce the amount of bitumen entering tailings ponds.
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| 6. | Panna Maria residents living near the tailings pond claimed increases in cancer and birth defects.
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| 7. | After sand mining operations ceased, the tailings ponds were all that remained of the mining operation.
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| 8. | So Dawn began pumping the contaminated groundwater, and dumping it in the largely empty tailings pond.
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| 9. | These powerful oxidative reagents can potentially remove enduring toxins from tailings ponds or waste water in cities.
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| 10. | The ruins are surrounded by the tailings pond of the former United Verde copper mine at Jerome.
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