Sentences with phrase «in drainage ditches»

With newly installed water control structures in the drainage ditches, they are able to control the rate and timing of wetland flooding to facilitate the forestry operations necessary for restoration — truly turning the historical human impact into conservation opportunity.

In drainage ditches and seeps, look for a delicate yellow flower, the seep monkey flower (Mimulus guttatus); a little later, look for its cousin on the drier hills of the scrubland, the sticky monkey flower (Mimulus aurantiacus).

Again, a kid playing with explosives in a drainage ditch has no intent of harming anything, the same construction in a theater doesn't have to explode, it only has to be discovered and incite panic.

To the above example, «a kid playing with an atomic bomb in a drainage ditch has no intent of harming anything..»

The Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco), which owns the plant, recorded high levels of radioactivity in a drainage ditch that runs to the sea from the tank, but could not detect anything in the seawater itself.

The trio was accused of murdering three eight - year - old boys, hog - tying them and leaving them in a drainage ditch.

When she caught up, Rivera found her dog Gizmo standing over a seemingly lifeless puppy in a drainage ditch, licking its face.

Someone had apparently dropped off the 10 - year - old cocker spaniel after finding her in a drainage ditch and about to drown.

Behr was found all alone in a drainage ditch by the local church at only about 4 weeks old.

Not exact matches

In case you missed the story, it was our drones that blew up Qadafi's convoy and forced him into the drainage ditch.

I did see the picture of the pitch in the middle of the prison when trying to match up Google Earth and some old maps (which put the Manor Ground immediately southwest of the prison, and, by inference, the Sportsman a tad southwest of that and nearer to the canal and drainage ditches that, I assume, were the source of the flooding, but we are only talking a difference of field or two at most; and if you have primary sources, I'll bow to those).

Mass Audubon generally opposes construction, maintenance, and enlargement of drainage ditches in freshwater wetlands for nuisance mosquito control purposes.

Suffolk County has tentatively agreed to pay $ 4.9 million to settle a lawsuit with Corinne Bednoski, of Peconic, who was severely injured when her car ran off a county road in 2006 and hit an unprotected drainage pipe in a median ditch.

The genus is so far ranging due to its unparticular diet and adaptability to different biomes and landforms, from marshes to hillsides to drainage ditches and even vacant lots, in both dry and wet regions, with varying proximity to water and rivers.

In the autumn of 1913, two farmers were arguing about hominid skull fragments they had uncovered while digging a drainage ditch.

But the piping in the camp's main showering and toilet area was shoddy, and there was «significant potential» for waste water to leak into a drainage ditch that runs throughout the camp and ends up in the Meye system.

Because the interior diameters of these pipes are small, rain - deposited wastes temporarily back - up in this glorified drainage ditch.

The Anshang site, discovered in 2012, includes the remains of a human - constructed levee and three irrigation / drainage ditches dating to the Zhou Dynasty (c. 1046 - 256 BC).

Salmonella is found in the feces of animals or in some habitats including ponds as drainage ditches.

Officer Beeson says, «I've personally helped with a cow trapped in a ditch under the 94 freeway, an overturned horse trailer on I - 15, a kitten stuck in a drainage pipe, and a horse who fell down a 150 - foot cliff, among many others.»

The white puppy, about 12 to 16 weeks old, was curled up in a four - foot deep drainage ditch with his muzzle tightly wrapped with duct tape.

All it's missing is Guillermo del Toro in soggy slacks and a creepy baby doll floating down the drainage ditch.

Governments should simply adopt their traditional role of funding tangible assets that can be used during emergencies and putting in place measures to prevent flooding by maintaining levees and drainage ditches.

So it's interesting that Pearce - Higgins mentions Forsinard in the presser, especially given the significant effect of drainage ditches there.

The researchers don't mention in the paper whether there are drainage ditches at the plover sites.

In the hills of the Fichtelbirge, the Bergwaldprojekt therefore constructs small wooden dams which block former manmade ditches and drainage canals, so that the moor is able to regenerate itself.

These include the construction of drainage ditches in the mountainside to carry away any meltwater, new waterproof walls inside the entrance tunnel and moving the transformer station out of the tunnel to eliminate a heat source and make for easier maintenance.

We have a daylight basement, and at the first really heavy rain water came in through the brick wall - some leaves had piled up under a deck and blocked the usual drainage ditch.