Sentences with phrase «from nearby ponds»

In addition GHPs can also be installed to harvest heat energy from nearby ponds, streams and wells.

They added sediment and plankton collected from a nearby pond to establish a small freshwater ecosystem in each tank.

Lifted from nearby pond.

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Officials project Frankfort Prairie Park, the acquisition of which Village Board members approved recently, will contain a retention pond that officials say will ease rainwater runoff from nearby streets.

The Uppsala research team focused their study on the Stentor polymorphus, a trumpet - shaped ciliate which they could isolate from a pond nearby the laboratory.

But the changes — heavy traffic, loss of nearby stockyards, smog and dust from drilling, growing waste ponds and pits and the pressures on the schools from temporary worker families — have strengthened their environmental commitment.

Her work includes analysis of pond sediments, soils, and more collecting to document plant diversity... We're also hoping to cast a broader net across Providence with an analysis of historical specimens of Plantago [plantain] in an attempt to match terrestrial trends in heavy metal concentration with measurements taken from nearby marine sediments in Narragansett Bay [south of Providence].»

These include standards - based projects and assignments that require students to apply their knowledge and skills, such as designing a building or investigating the water quality of a nearby pond; clearly defined rubrics (or criteria) to facilitate a fair and consistent evaluation of student work; and opportunities for students to benefit from the feedback of teachers, peers, and outside experts.

When a package with frog - hunting supplies arrives from her grandmother, bespectacled Maggi and her large canine companion Milo head out beyond «the edge of the world» to a nearby pond where, after waiting «a million minutes,» their patience is finally rewarded.

Peter Brueghel the elder hunters in the snow (the one I referenced) painted during the first great winter of the little ice age in 1565 shows three hunters and their dogs setting out from a snowbound village while the villagers skate on nearby ponds.

This dependence on vast amounts of coal - fired power, on top of adding to our climate woes and air pollution issues, also has an impact on the communities surrounding coal plants, thanks to the insidious effects of coal ash (the leftover material from burning coal as a fuel) in disposal ponds, which often leak slowly into groundwater or which can «spill» into nearby rivers or lakes, polluting a natural resource that we all rely on.

The plaintiffs in the case of Coterel v. Dorel Juvenile Group were the parents of a boy who died after he wandered from the family home in the middle of the night and drowned in a nearby pond.

A tanker holds between 12,000 and 17,000 gallons, with water fetched from «known water supplies such as nearby ponds and tanks,» he says.