Sentences with phrase «from rain runoff»

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Runoff from torrential inland rains can add to these totals, although this is usually a relatively small factor.

It must have taken a lot of long, very hard work to do that,» Dunsmuir said.Since then, rains and increasing runoff have eroded the lake's banks and filled in the bottom, making it hard for residents to keep their canoes from going aground.

They were especially alarmed after heavy rains created serious flooding in the Southern Tier, adding to the worries that runoff from fracking fluid would make the process even more dangerous.

Update: Officials from the Coast Guard, the lead agency on the investigation, say its pollution teams discovered the diesel is actually rain runoff from somewhere up river, not from a tugboat as originally reported.

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

Rain water is shunted into storm drains, pushing the contaminated sediment downstream and delivering a fresh load of toxic runoff and snowmelt from city streets to Little Black Creek.

What brings that runoff from farm fields to the lake is rain, and lots of it.

Without a crop covering the ground, there is an increased amount of soil exposure that can lead to erosion from winter rains and runoff.

Each time it rains, runoff carries an earthy tea steeped from leaf litter, crop residue, soil, and other organic materials into the storm drains and streams that feed Chesapeake Bay.

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.

«A sort of grand problem in Earth science is to understand the water cycle — evaporation from the ocean, clouds, rain, the formation of ice, the runoff from the land back into the sea,» said Eric Lindstrom, Aquarius program scientist at NASA.

Each year, a huge amount of water evaporates from the ocean, then falls over land as rain or snow, and returns to the ocean through runoff and river flows.

On the other hand, a shallow rain garden will need a lot of surface area to provide enough water storage to filtrate runoff from larger storms.

Floods are the number one natural disaster in the U.S. Within the last five years, all 50 states have experienced flooding from a variety of causes including hurricanes, snowmelts, heavy rains and altered geography that changed natural runoff paths.

In fact, within the last five years, all 50 states have experienced flooding from a variety of causes including, tropical storm surges, heavy rains, snowmelts and alterations in geography that change the path of runoffs.

Most at risk are pets that spend a lot of time in the water or in area that gets rain or snow runoff, as well as dogs that drink from puddles or ponds.

Rain is plentiful and tastes sweet ö you need sufficient clean (not thatch) roof from which to catch runoff, and a place to store it.

North County's Jalama Beach maintains its warning status from the previous week because of the poop in the lagoon runoff from the previous rain, likely from waterfowl.

This is part way into a question I asked at RC... QUESTION: Do these experiments take into account any heat added to the water by underwater volcanic activity or fumeroles or even fresh water runoff from rain?

«Good autumn rainfall wets the soil and allows for vital runoff from follow - on winter and spring rain to flow into catchments.»

The chapter first rehabilitated an existing rain garden that captures runoff from a 20,000 square foot parking lot at Gregory Elementary, a Title I magnet school in Wilmington.

Finally, judicious irrigation should not significantly impact stormwater management as irrigation typically occurs only during low rain / low runoff periods when the roof will dry out quickly from evapotranspiration.

Stormwater runoff is generated when precipitation from rain and snow hits impervious surfaces such as roads, rooftops, or parking lots and is not absorbed into the ground.

In addition to direct rainfall, stormwater runoff from surrounding impervious surfaces, such as sidewalks and rooftops, can be directed in to the rain garden so it can be absorbed into the ground.

But a new discussion paper, «The role of glaciers in stream flow from the Nepal Himalaya,» (Alford and Armstrong, The Cryosphere Discuss., 4, 469 - 494, 2010) concludes that glacial runoff contributes only about 4 % to the total annual stream flow of the Ganges system; the great majority is contributed by monsoon rains.

But NYC's Department of Environmental Protection, in partnership with the not - for - profit Trust for Public Land, is in the process of developing a plan to build some green playgrounds, which will be designed to slow down the runoff and capture up to one inch of rain from each storm.

This flood usually occurs from a temporary situation such as a rapid accumulation of runoff of surface waters from heavy rains, damn breakage, tidal waves and / or heavy mudflow.

«IBC found that rain barrels, if emptied regularly, could divert 4.5 - million litres of rainwater runoff away from a municipality's sewer system and out of homes, which is great news,» said Ralph Palumbo, vice president of Ontario at IBC.

Hurricanes or tropical storms, an overflow of inland or tidal waters, a rapid accumulation of rain or runoff of surface waters from any source, mudflow or collapse of land or erosion can cause flooding as well as a broken water main.

Floods are the number one natural disaster in the U.S. Within the last five years, all 50 states have experienced flooding from a variety of causes including hurricanes, snowmelts, heavy rains and altered geography that changed natural runoff paths.

There was a gigantic rain tank that collected runoff from the roof, a tiny office, and he sold the bedding plants out the back door in spring.

Lawns help reduce water runoff from rain and absorb summer heat, as well as providing a soft play area for kids.