The triangular structure was built at a cost of $4,725.99 with bricks brought from Europe as ship ballast.

Inadvertent transport in ship ballast is another possibility, but experts discount it.

Drawing parallels from the past, the publication notes how pollution was a problem in Westchester as early as 1684, when the dumping of ship ballasts was prohibited.

The stone is thought to have been brought to the site originally as ship ballast, therefore it is also known as the Ship's Ballast House.

The Historical house was built from Edinburgh sandstone, transported to Australia as a ship ballast.

S. latifolia is thought to have arrived in North America as a component of ship ballast.

Phragmites, a handsome European reed with a feathery crimson plume, got dumped on the coast of New England in heaps of 19th-century ship ballast.

Ellis is just old ship ballast.

We've only this little island, twenty-seven lousy acres built on abandoned ship ballast that's filling up quickly.

Charon moved between piles of discarded ship ballast as Oddity's lungs heaved and the agony of change lanced through them all.