Sentences with phrase «filtered runoff»

You could even use the naturally filtered runoff water as drinking water for your dog.

The project includes rebuilding the park road along I - 190, adding new streetlights, and a new parking lot, complete with a tree, shrub and grass «rain garden'to filter runoff.

Other methods include planting rain gardens to naturally soak up and filter the runoff, or simply disconnecting gutter downspouts from your home.

Manning says the report also ignores other services grasslands provide, such as absorbing flood water and filtering runoff.

Salt marshes perform a long list of ecological services: they buffer coastal erosion; filter runoff; reduce the risk of flooding; provide habitat for juvenile fish, crabs and shrimp; and store excess carbon, keeping it from re-entering Earth's atmosphere.

These biofiltration systems capture and filter the runoff.

Both «cooled conservatories» run on energy generated by the Supertrees and capture and filter runoff water.

These approaches work in concert with nature to collect and filter runoff, reduce flooding, and minimize pollution in our rivers and streams, all while helping to save money and energy.

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The study suggests that up until 1997, whenever the ice caps and glaciers melted, the runoff would be filtered through a layer of older snow called the «firn» and trickle down to the ice surface, where it would freeze again, allowing the glaciers and ice caps to grow each winter.

Constructing wetlands that capture runoff and filter contaminants before they make it into the sewage system.

Decades of runoff and pollution have decimated the local shellfish population and hurt the environment's ability to filter the water, Cuomo said.

AbTech is a small Arizona company that sells sponge - like filters that remove pollutants from water and can be used in sewers and on stormwater runoff.

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.

«The filter bed substrate is the foundation of the rain garden and gives it the ability to infiltrate runoff, slow drainage, support plant growth, and remove pollutants,» explained Helen Kraus, lead author of a study published in HortScience.

Toxic industrial runoffs, heavy metals, and pharmaceutical drugs are the bigger categories to watch out for,» says William Cole, D.C. «Carbon filters can do a great job at filtering, and certain brands have filters that focus more on certain pollutants, allowing you to pinpoint your water's particular problem.

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.

Her groundbreaking, remediative sculptural environments were designed as ecological filters to cleanse gray water, urban storm water and agricultural runoff.

By infiltrating the different layers of the green roof composite, the stormwater runoff is partially filtered and is less polluted when discharged into natural streams.

There, on a formerly shopworn industrial site, newly planted trees, a ten - acre living roof, and a series of constructed wetlands and swales are restoring soil, creating habitat, and revitalizing the landscape while effectively filtering stormwater runoff for $ 35 million less than conventional technical methods.

Green roofs reduce stormwater runoff, filter out water and air pollutants, moderate the urban heat - island effect, add green space to the built environment, shade and insulate rooftops to improve buildings» thermal performance (thereby reducing energy use and costs), and extend the service life of structural roof systems.

SITES - certified landscapes additionally help reduce water demand, filter and reduce stormwater runoff, provide wildlife habitat, reduce energy consumption, improve air quality, improve human health and increase outdoor recreation opportunities.

-- «Bioswale» landscape features and plantings that filter rainwater runoff before it enters storm drains

This typically includes the installation of silt fencing, haybale protection around groundwater extraction wells, and catch basin inlet filters to catch and contain storm runoff when it rains.

Preserve natural features, such as floodplains with a natural vegetation buffer along streams that can slow, filter, and store polluted runoff.

Gardens filter and store stormwater to prevent runoff.

One of the benefits of constructing these artificial wetlands was thought to be in cleaning and filtering polluted water, including mitigating the effects of excess fertilizer runoff, which has been contributing to hypoxic zones in the ocean.

They also supply essential services — for example, they filter water, control water runoff, protect soil, regulate climate, cycle and store nutrients, and provide habitat for countless animal species and space for recreation.

Instead of rushing through a pipe, stormwater winds slowly through the channel, which is planted with native plants that filter and process sediments, pollutants and nutrients such as nitrates — which can cause toxic algae blooms — before the runoff reaches Lake Washington.

One of the easiest ways to make less impact is to move your car to your lawn or gravel surface where all that contaminated runoff can be absorbed into the ground and filtered naturally.

In undisturbed landscapes, such as woods and open field, there is very little stormwater runoff because rainwater filters through soil or evaporates into the atmosphere.