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How do they clean industrial waste spills from water sources?

Asked by DigitalBlue (7102points) February 8th, 2013

Recently, we had an incident in which thousands of gallons of chemical and oil laden fracking waste were dumped into our river. There is a criminal investigation and authorities are conducting a “clean up,” but how does that work? I can somewhat understand how they might remove oil from the water, since oil floats, but as for the actual wastewater and chemicals and heavy metals, how will that be removed? Will it?

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