Sentences with phrase «drainage canal»
A drainage canal is a small man-made channel that is designed to carry away excess water from an area. Its purpose is to prevent flooding by directing the water towards a larger body of water, such as a river or ocean. Full definition
A makeshift canal used to drain water from a neighborhood in January was now a full drainage canal covered by a permanent bridge.
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Bleaker than the landscape is the infrastructure for some 80,000 people clinging to an agrarian lifestyle, often along drainage canals within regions that used to be covered by marshes.
Prytania Street was transformed into a pit in 2015 for the installation of new drainage canals underground.
In fact, one drainage canal at the Great Dismal Swamp in Virginia is named the George Washington Canal because its construction was led by our first president.
These are natural drainage canals that lead to the Vermilion River.
BUCHANAN — Crews at the Indian Point nuclear plant Saturday in Westchester County were continuing cleanup efforts after an undetermined amount of oil spilled into a drainage canal leading to the Hudson River.
Crews at the Indian Point nuclear plant Saturday in Westchester County were continuing cleanup efforts after an undetermined amount of oil spilled into a drainage canal leading to the Hudson River.
That map of the city before the drainage canals that manipulated the water flow of the Everglades shows a series of settlements along higher ground.
«The drainage canal project should, as a matter of course, be mentioned in the national report,» says Noritaka Ichida, director of the Wild Bird Society of Japan.
The eye fluid then flows out through a spongy tissue called the trabecular meshwork into a drainage canal.
She had been found abandoned in the middle of nowhere, alone in a drainage canal.
Done on the wall of a drainage canal, the painting illustrates the history of California as seen through immigrant eyes, with particular attention paid to civil rights advances and abuses.
He and Kramer scan the pond one more time, then cross a rise to check out a drainage canal.
Drainage canal that forms the boundary between the...
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.