Sentences with phrase «flooded with rainwater»

In contrast, the Iowa Court of Appeals in Arthur v. Brick addressed the adequacy of the seller's disclosures regarding a property that flooded with rainwater and sewage shortly after the buyers moved in.

We drove over soft ground flooded with rainwater, winding our way through a dozen stacks, two dozen.

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Prosecco Blamed for Italy Flood Deaths The tragic deaths of four people swept away by flash floods in northern Italy have been blamed by critics on the regions burgeoning Prosecco industry accused of over-planting and damaging the lands ability to deal with rainwater...

The clinching evidence for this was that cracks in Lajia created by the quake were filled with flood - related sediment, not the fine silt sediment deposited by annual rainwater runoff at the same site each year, showing that the flood sediment got there first, and so must have arrived within a year of the quake.

Beyond the benefits to individual homeowners, rainwater harvesting can also be good for the local community, as it reduces the erosion, flooding and pollution runoff associated with heavy rainfall, and lessens reliance on public water supplies, alleviating some of the burden on utilities.

Infiltration of rainwater declines, runoff and erosion increase with more flash flooding.