Sentences with phrase «collect runoff water»

Implemention of water conservation programs, including repurposing retired steel fermentation tanks to collect runoff water for re-irrigation, saving millions of gallons of water per year.

Not exact matches

The project also included the development of an initiative that collects water to help alleviate storm water runoff.
As a result, rainwater bounces off and collects as runoff, picking up impurities — including infectious bacteria from animal waste as well as harmful pesticides and fertilizers — on the way to municipal storm sewers, which in turn eventually empty out into local bodies of water.
Location, location, location — Pick a site for your garden where runoff from your driveway or roof gutters can be diverted into it or that tends to collect water.
Dr. Diane Boellstorff, AgriLife Extension water resource specialist, College Station, said proper fertilizer application and efficient water irrigation can protect and improve water quality in area creeks, and collecting rainwater for lawn and landscape needs reduces stormwater runoff.
Grand Plan: The school «scovered entryway (once a parking lot) channels water to a collecting area, educating students about rainfall and runoff.
A 525,000 square foot stockpile area will be created to store approximately 300,000 metric tons of coal, which will include a water collection and storage pond to collect runoff, stacker feed conveyors and a coal reclaim system.»
Green infrastructure promotes the natural movement of water by collecting and managing stormwater runoff from streets, sidewalks, parking lots and rooftops and directing it to engineered systems that typically feature soils, stones, and vegetation.
But Homestead Economics has a neat video of their rainwater garden system, which collects stormwater runoff from a long dirt driveway, diverts it to carefully designed grow beds surrounded by a berm, and then collects any excess water in a retention pond for future irrigation.
Their simulations compared well to data collected on snowpack distribution and water runoff.
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