Effluent Pipe
N 56.59.29 W 111.37.41 Syncrude Mildred Lake, Alberta, Canada

The tone and colour of the tar ponds vary from one to another and with changing light. They are starkly beautiful. Here the hydraulic forces generated by effluent streaming into a tar pond near Syncrude’s Mildred Lake upgrading refinery create a white plume in brown toxic water.