Sentences with phrase «gallons of rain»

In Texas and Louisiana, more than 30 - trillion gallons of rain has damaged or destroyed more than 200,000 homes and totaled more than a million cars.

I collected about 50 gallons of rain water which I might use to flush the toilet, since it's too toxic to give to my plants.

She has carved elegant hydroglyphs into the Utah desert that hold up to five gallons of rain or snowmelt, replacing natural water sources for animals that have been taken over by humans.

In Texas and Louisiana, more than 30 - trillion gallons of rain has damaged or destroyed more than 200,000 homes and totaled more than a million cars.

gallons of rain each year.

Per Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner, over 1 trillion gallons of rain fell there.

That suggests to me that something is happening here that's way bigger than the largely made - up tiff between Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) and Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner (D) about whether Houston should have been evacuated before Harvey dumped trillions of gallons of rain on the nation's fourth - largest city.

Not exact matches

Coke Consolidated repurposes its 55 - gallon syrup drums as recycle bins and rain barrels provided free of charge to partners and customers.

Halter Ranch conserves water, resulting in over a 50 % reduction in irrigation; captures rain and winery water bringing over two million gallons back to irrigation ponds; and farms 281 acres of vines without removing oak trees or displacing existing wildlife and plant life.

For his white - hunter hat, Thompson used the fine beaver - fur felt of a cowboy's ten - gallon, made it into an Africa - tested style: wide brim (3 1/4 inches) to keep out sun and rain, an inside band designed to keep the hat on in the wind, a Stewart Granger dash of genuineleopard - skin band ($ 17.50).

In addition, the authority last year completed a project on Lang Avenue that's designed to store up to 840,000 gallons of sewage when it rains.

The Water Board issued written statements blaming those on heavy rains overtaxing the wastewater treatment plant's capacity of 60 million gallons a day.

Though the amount of water processed through the system isn't troublesome — 600,000 gallons per day is permitted, and they usually use around 130,000, Mayor Gregory Martin said — the village pipes are old, and whenever it rains, inflow to their wastewater system poses possible threats.

A busted sewer pipe has spewed 4.5 million gallons of raw sewage and rain water into Onondaga Lake after heavy rains the past few days, Onondaga County reported.

EPA Regional Director Judith Enck says every year heavy rains and heavy snow melt overwhelm the system causing nearly two billion gallons of raw sewage to flow directly into the Niagara River.

«They do have sanitary sewers that are not combined, but when you look at the flow on a regular day, the number of gallons that go through a pump station and then compare it to what happens after a rain storm, they have eight times the water going through,» Mahoney said.

And since an inch of rain falling on a 2,000 - square - foot roof produces some 1,200 gallons of runoff, one can harvest enough to supply all the water needs of a family of four for about two weeks.

Butter is a perfect long distance food; it lasts for a long time, so it can be transported on a boat, it is resource intensive (a lot of feed goes into a gallon of milk, a lot of milk goes into a pound of butter), and the variation in environmental impact depending on where it is produced is huge (rain irrigated pasture over artificially irrigated grain).

For every inch of rain, we harvest and store 200 gallons of water, and limit the contamination of our Codornices Creek Watershed and the San Francisco Bay.

At the Crissy Field Center, over 50 percent of water used to flush toilets is supplied by a 5,000 gallon rain catchment system.

We have a double ring cast iron stove running on butane that can boil two gallons of water in ten minutes (we purify the rain water we carry stowed in this manner).

Thanks to our Green City, Clean Waters program, thousands of green tools like rain gardens and stormwater tree planters across the city soak up tens of millions of gallons of stormwater runoff each time we have a substantial storm.

Your city probably loses millions of gallons of rainwater because grass - covered parkways naturally shed water and are sloped to send rain into storm drains.

So the real cost of a gallon of gasoline would include compensation for all the harms it's done to that point (in extraction, transport, processing, etc), and all harms it will do, including global heating harms, acid rain, and local pollution, including small particulate matter.