Sentences with phrase «into nearby surface»
Another advantage to a shared sewer is that such systems are usually built to withstand heavy loads and can better accommodate periods of heavy precipitation or storm surges that might overwhelm smaller, poorly conceived or maintained home - based septic tanks, which are by virtue of their size and the laws of physics more prone to overflow and send contaminants into nearby surface and ground waters.
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The observation suggests that Pluto isn't big enough and heavy enough to have the gravity to «clear its orbit,» removing nearby objects by either slinging them farther out into space or pulling them toward its surface.
Along with a porous paving system and a network of natural swales, the living roof will retain storm water, allowing it to percolate slowly through the soil rather than flow swiftly from impervious surfaces into the nearby river.
Gas wells are punched deep into the earth; layers of rock are then «cracked» by injecting sand - and chemical - filled water under great pressure - the so - called «fracing» process - allowing natural gas to escape to the surface via well head, and so it is feared, allowing contaminants from fracing fluids to move into nearby water wells.
From the time the well is drilled, methane is leaking into nearby rocks, and escaping to the surface; not all of it is captured at the well head.