Sentences with phrase «into rain barrels»

At Scituate High School, in North Scituate, Rhode Island, students have greened their campus by building a biodiesel tank, installing solar panels, and turning empty food containers into rain barrels.

Not exact matches

Hurricane Sandy barreled into the U.S. East Coast on October 29, bringing heavy rains, high winds and severe storm surges from the Carolinas to New England.

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.

For one puzzle I had to drag a flaming barrel into the rain in order to douse it before I could jump on it, using it as a platform.

The sound effects include Major Fletcher walking, sprinting or dashing, gunfire from your weapons, a range of attacks from machines and their respective weaponry, explosions from environmental hazards such as explosive barrels and electric devices when shot at and ambient sound effects such as heavy rain that breathes more life into the surrounding environments, alongside atmospheric music, while the DualShock 4 speaker sporadically produces a voice - over detailing your latest objective.

As Hurricane Harvey barreled into Houston, the state shut down 50 stationary air quality monitors that track pollution levels to protect the sensitive devices from the high winds and torrential rains that swamped the region.

Have you found another way to make a rain barrel that you'll actually want to incorporate into your landscape, not hide behind a fence?

I've got 3 clever ways to turn ugly rain barrels into pretty rain barrels... without spending much money.

«Five proposed schoolyards in Brooklyn and Queens are undergoing soil tests, and if selected they will be transformed into public playgrounds with storm water - capture features such as rain barrels, raised gardens, porous pavers and an under - layer of gravel that holds water during a storm, before allowing it to seep gradually into the ground below, city DEP Commissioner Carter Strickland said.»

Rain barrels, which attach to downspouts, catch rainwater which would otherwise flow into sewers and over dirty streets, carrying pollution into local streams.

«One of our members painted her rain barrel to blend into the brickwork and siding of her home — pretty clever,» says Wool.

Rain barrels keep the rainwater from going down into the groundwater.

- we have a garden - we compost - we use rain barrels - we are looking into getting a rooftop wind turbine - we are going to line dry our clothes when the weather is okay outside - we recycle and take all our glass to recycle centers

We don't have a rain barrel, however due to a problem with leaking into a basement window, we have an old kiddie pool outside that window to catch the drips, it waters the roses quite nicely and keeps the basement dry.