Sentences with phrase «drainage ditches»

To re-wild this tract, the Conservancy filled in drainage ditches, restoring natural water flows.

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

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.

Before it was correctly paused by the courts, WOTUS would have required local farmers to apply for federal permits for routine work involving drainage ditches or dry streambeds on their property, a costly and time - consuming process for a seasonal enterprise.»

The scientists killed carp that had colonized old drainage ditches and restocked the expanded body of water with fish native to the area.

Christian, who pulled the amphiuma from a rain - flooded drainage ditch in his yard at home, knew right away what he had found — and he knew it would be welcome in Guillot's critter - crowded classroom.

They simply build houses on stilts and their roads have MASSIVE drainage ditches at the side of them.

Deep drainage ditches and curving roads are common in this Louisiana city.

This one is open to the sun — high, grass - grown earthen embankments with a stone drainage ditch running through the middle.

Plans for Sunnyside Park call for keeping the tennis courts on the west side of the park, next to the wastewater treatment plant, and connecting the courts to the east side of the park with an asphalt path, with a bridge over the central drainage ditch.

As WCBS 880's Sean Adams reported, Jasmin allegedly sold her vote for a community center to be built on a weed - covered drainage ditch next to Village Hall.

But farmers say this is increased bureaucracy that does little but attempt to regulate drainage ditches, culverts and mud puddles that has had no practical effect.

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

It also suggests that the Chinese government's long - running efforts to tame the Yellow River with levees, dikes and drainage ditches actually made periodic flooding much worse, setting the stage for a catastrophic flood circa A.D. 14 - 17, which likely killed millions and triggered the collapse of the Western Han Dynasty.

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).

Also, Jack Golson, now retired but formerly of the Australian National University, discovered drainage ditches and crude fields in the highlands of New Guinea.

And drainage ditches on forest plantations ensure that water often runs into streams killing fish before soils neutralise it.

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

Nearly half of Harris County's 2,500 miles of rivers, bayous and drainage ditches do not have mapped flood plains, according to data from the county, leaving an inaccurate picture of flood risk for...

Over the last couple centuries, most of the historic forest of Atlantic white cedar and bald cypress was cleared, and drainage ditches installed to enable agriculture.

The report also noted that 2,000 barrels of the oil had fouled drainage ditches and a cove south of Lake Conway, a popular recreation area renowned for its fishing and scenic setting.

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

Workers this week are trying to gauge the extent of Hurricane Harvey's damage on Harris County Flood Control District infrastructure, a network of 2,500 miles of bayous, creeks and drainage ditches designed to drain water out of Houston's flat topography and into Galveston Bay.

A new study found that the current voluntary actions are not enough, but that if they were supplemented with other actions, such as «restoring wetlands in marginal corn and soybean fields and within river and stream paths, [enhancing drainage ditches,] as well as reconnecting rivers with their floodplains,» they could be significantly more effective.

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.

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).

On Tuesday (Feb. 28), Faso released a statement applauding President Trump's executive order that day, saying, «Before it was correctly paused by the courts, WOTUS would have required local farmers to apply for federal permits for routine work involving drainage ditches or dry streambeds on their property, a costly and time - consuming process for a seasonal enterprise.»

On Wedholme Flow we flooded Fisons» old drainage ditches and the open water has been completely covered by Sphagnum cuspidatum, so that it is dangerous to walk across the bog because you can not see the water.»

The main job for conservation management, he says, is to block off and flood drainage ditches, and allowing the vegetation to recover.

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

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.

Palmer learned the game from his dad: by age five, young Arnie would station himself by the sixth tee and offer to drive shots over a drainage ditch that lay 120 yards down the fairway, for a nickel.

He lurked at late hours along drainage ditches that run alongside the back yards of every house on this block.

As someone once said, it's a pretty poor civil engineer who runs a drainage ditch right through a recreational area.

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

A «sacred river» has become a drainage ditch and the sea into which it empties is drying up.

These drainage ditches hold all the water necessary for irrigating and flooding the bogs during the fall harvest.

With no team - building rituals, Russell renamed a drainage ditch between two practice fields Beautiful Eagle Creek, bottling its «magic water» in a milk jug to pour on opponent fields for luck.

The drainage ditch would be fenced off and screened by landscaping.

The village will retain title to a drainage ditch that will be upgraded by the developer and maintained by the Park District.

Most likely, the vast bulk of Multi-Modal Program funds are used for innocuous things like fixing rough patches of pavement or old guardrails and drainage ditches.

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

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.

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.

Global challenge Gathering data about the type of water source — tap, drainage ditch, borehole, etcetera — is a lot easier than performing formal water quality tests, which is one of the reasons the U.N. goals focused on improving water sources.

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

They are geology students who found the nautiloid while prospecting in a drainage ditch along a highway bypass.

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.

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.