Sentences with phrase «flooded square miles»

If you've flooded square miles of wilderness and built a dam 63 stories tall, it's hard to revise, to amend the system.

Not exact matches

Humanity needs to do the world a favor and dig a hole the size of Lake Eerie for a thousand square miles and flood the entire region with the ocean.

The watershed of the world's third largest estuary — the Chesapeake Bay — covers 64,000 square miles and is home to almost 18 million people who benefit from the flood control, food sources and recreational opportunities that the ecosystem provides.

Using a six - square - mile test plot, they found that the organic carbon comes from shallow ponds that were dug to provide soil for flood protection.

In 1986, Venezuela's Raúl Leoni Dam flooded 1,660 square miles (4,300 square kilometers) of land, creating the vast Lake Guri, along with a scattering of nonsubmerged land.

The flooded area totaled three square miles in 12 different segments of the park, and salt water had poured into four freshwater ponds, or «tanks» (man - made water reservoirs up to several miles wide that were created by Sri Lankan kings in the 12th century).

Now, after decades of grim losses, the news from the Aral Sea is good: Since the dam's completion last August, the smaller, northern part of the Aral Sea has swelled by 30 percent, flooding more than 300 square miles of parched, sun - bleached seabed.

Brazil's environmental agency, Ibama, issued a license to the consortium Norte Energia SA on Wednesday to begin construction of the dam, which is expected to cost $ 16 billion and would flood 199 square miles of forest.

For that, you'll have to travel to the Pantanal in Brazil, where 80 percent of its more than 55,000 square miles flood in the rainy season.

The third collaboration between Morrison and acclaimed guitarist / composer Bill Frisell, the film chronicles the most destructive river flood in US history, which saw nearly 150 breaks in the Mississippi's levees, flooding of 27,000 square miles, the deaths of 250 people in seven states, and damages estimated at over $ 400 million.

Flooding across 500 square miles destroyed homes and businesses.

Our restoration efforts have been slowed by the historic flooding, which deposited 200 billion gallons of water in just a few days across our service territory, which covers some 900 square miles,» according to a

«Our restoration efforts have been slowed by the historic flooding, which deposited 200 billion gallons of water in just a few days across our service territory, which covers some 900 square miles,» according to a storm update from JEA published on the same day as Doyle's letter to the editor.

When the floods in Boulder have receded the NSIDC will once again say «Just over half a million square miles».

Thirty - four years ago, a similar snow pack melted, flooding hundreds of square miles of the valley.

A severe California winter storm could realistically flood thousands of square miles of urban and agricultural land, result in thousands of landslides, disrupt lifelines throughout the state for days or weeks, and cost on the order of $ 725 billion.

Flooding Rain Events have more than doubled Droughts have doubled in number and nearly tripled in square miles affected Heat waves have doubled.

«Protecting tropical forests from disturbance is one of our best means to reduce atmospheric CO2 — yet ~ 10 million hectares [38,610 square miles] of forests are predicted to be flooded for reservoirs in Amazonia for «green energy» production.»

According to that report, although a sea level rise of 1.6 feet or more would negatively affect large portions of the City, the «worst - case scenario» for sea level rise projects a 1.6 foot increase to be reached in 2047 assuming no mitigation or adaptation efforts... Furthermore, even assuming a 2 - foot sea level rise, only 0.1 square miles of land in the City that isn't potentially protected by levees or other flood control structures is below two feet of elevation.»

If you look at what happened in 2012 and compare it to a hurricane with a similar surge in 1821, it flooded about 100,000 square kilometers (37,000 square miles) more because the sea had risen 50 centimeters (19 inches.)»