Sentences with phrase «main reservoirs up»
The water utility serving New York City has identified heavy precipitation events as one of its major climate - change - related concerns because such events can raise turbidity levels in some of the city's main reservoirs up to 100 times the legal limit for source quality at the utility's intake, requiring substantial additional treatment and monitoring costs (Miller and Yates, 2006).
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«As the climate warms up, now what we see is even when there is a pretty good snowpack, like we had last year, we don't get enough snowmelt runoff to make a huge impact on [Elephant Butte] reservoir,» which is the main area of storage for the Upper Rio Grande.