Sentences with phrase «as a river overflowing»

Water moving along the ground, such as a river overflowing its banks or a flash flood is not covered.

Not exact matches

Sometimes it's enough to have the simple, causal, often mechanical answers that the razor allows as sufficient: the river overflowed because heavy storms dropped ten inches of rain in a forty - eight hour period just as the snow was melting.

As part of this study, Dr. O'Mullan and his students are also collecting temperature, salinity and dissolved oxygen data, to more fully understand the impacts of Combined Sewer Overflows (CSOs) in the East River and its bays and tributaries.

The Mayak releases included «repeated planned discharges of radioactivity into the Techa River» as well as «many unexpected, so - called «wild overflows» and breakdowns».

Heavy rainfall brought torrential floods to the capital city of Tbilisi, Georgia as the Vere River overflowed its banks in June.

Nor do most of us know whether we'd be covered in the event of an earthquake, such as the tremor that recently shook up Ottawa, or flooding, like the Red River overflow that destroyed homes in southern Manitoba, or even a forest fire, like the Greer Creek fires in central interior B.C. which threatened dozens of homes this summer.

The site centres around 2 groups of lagoons; the first consists of Calabash Pond, Revenge, Western Crooked Tree and Southern Lagoons, and Spanish Creek which are all linked to Belize River, via Black Creek, the second consists of Jones and Mexico Lagoons, which also link into the Belize River via Mexico Creek When the Belize River is in flood, the resew acts as an overflow basin.

Under the headline «Holidays in Hell: Bali's Ongoing Woes» (1 April 2011), Time magazine depicted Bali as a resort island overwhelmed by environmental problems, including uncollected rubbish everywhere, overflowing sewage plants, and rivers that flush trash into the sea at its most famous beaches.

People living and working on floodway land designed and designated as an overflow channel of the river — and for which, U.S. taxpayers paid flow easements — these people fight against using the floodway for its intended purpose.

If the river were allowed to overflow it's banks as nature intended you would still have marsh lands and barrier islands that would protect the city and the surrounding areas.

The amount of water cited as potentially available from conservation is more than what is now reaching the Colorado River Delta, thanks only to leaks and occasional overflows in the plumbing.

More abundant rainfall can lead to flash flooding, as large volumes of water runoff feeds into streams and rivers, causing them to overflow.

Surrounded by mountains on one side and (what's left of) woods on the other, last Monday (Feb. 9) a massive landslide of water and mud caused by the overflow of Tartagal river came down from a hill and took a quarter of the town, pushing everything as it passed and ruining the houses of at least 1200 people.

Mudslides which are proximately caused by the overflow of inland or tidal waters and are akin to a river or liquid and flowing mud on the surfaces of normally dry land areas including your residence, as when earth is carried by a current of water and deposited along the path of the current.

Sometimes, heavy rains, coupled with snowmelts, can cause the Ohio River to overflow its banks and flood this area, as many residents remember happening in 2011.

Typically, water that comes from the bottom up — such as an overflowing river — is covered by a separate flood insurance policy, which can be purchased from the federal government's National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), and from some private insurers.

It does not cover natural floods, such as excess rain, river overflows, or storm surge.

A river overflowing as a result of a hurricane is a flood, and only flood insurance covers floods.

Renters insurance in Boise won't cover water moving along the ground, such as from an overflowing river or stream, but it can cover other water losses as well as many other things.

A flood is «water moving along the ground» such as a river that's overflowed, or water that's poorly drained and pools high enough to get under your door.

The first section of the Saw Mill River to be set free from the flume — which remains in place to serve as an overflow channel during heavy rain — runs for two blocks through a former parking lot that is now a park.