Sentences with phrase «absorb storm runoff»

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The city has committed $ 1.5 billion to erecting green infrastructure — green roofs, street and sidewalk plantings, porous pavements, cisterns, rain barrels — that will control and absorb storm water and prevent polluted runoff from flowing into waterways by capturing it and filtering it naturally through the soil.

Zedler's contractors planted all three tracts with similar species to see how the vegetation would absorb and clean water runoff during storms.

Green roofs, green streets, rainwater gardens, and bioswales can absorb storm water runoff, while also cooling city blocks suffering from the urban heat - island effect during hot summers.

They provide essential breeding grounds and nurseries for commercially important fish; mangroves and the adjacent seagrass beds retain and filter sediment from river runoff, increasing the clarity of water on the reefs; they are the first line of storm defence, absorbing the power of the wind.

A November ice storm then created a sheet of ice that prevented runoff from being absorbed into the soil.

In addition, the Mississippi Concrete Industries Association says concrete absorbs water, improving storm water runoff quality.