Sentences with phrase «more storm water»

The plan is under review by the club, which has not yet agreed to accept more storm water.

Not exact matches

More than three months after the storm, 1.5 million Puerto Ricans remain without power, and hundreds of thousands have no clean water.

Having dumped more than two feet (60 cm) of water on Houston already, Harvey, which hit the Texas coast as a Category 4 hurricane but is now a tropical storm, was expected to hover over Southeast Texas for several days and drop more than two more feet of water.

The storm dumped more than nine trillion gallons of water on Houston, the equivalent of a years» worth of rainfall in four - and - a-half days.

But the mountains might have also caused the storm to wring out more water and intensify winds while it was traversing the island.

The fiercest hurricane to hit the U.S. in more than a decade spun across hundreds of miles of coastline where communities had prepared for life - threatening storm surges — walls of water rushing inland.

Storm surge — the mass of water hurricanes push onshore from the ocean — will have a higher bed of water that will rush farther inland and destroy more property.

Elsewhere in scripture, we see worship coming from the sun, moon, stars, rocks, water, fish, lightning, hail, snow, clouds, storms, mountains, hills, cattle, animals, fields, and more.

• accepted more than $ 300,000 in city taxpayer - funded reimbursements of their costs in moving portions of a storm sewer and constructing a water line.

The agreement would have included reducing the number of retention basins to five from eight, decreasing water storage around a Little League concession area, providing for more underground storm - water storage and restoring the fields on the park's southwest side.

«Homeowners have more park space and the reassurance that they have a comprehensive storm water management system.

Currently, the village has a storm - water detention basin at 840 N. Main St., but a comprehensive plan created eight years ago urges that the basin be moved to allow for more commercial development in the area.

The new plan would have included reducing the number of retention basins to five from eight, decreasing water storage around a Little League concession area, providing for more underground storm - water storage and restoring the fields on the park's southwest side.

Hurricane Maria hit the islands as a powerful Category 4 storm, decimating infrastructure and leaving many of the more than 3.4 million US citizens without power, communications, or access to food, water, and fuel.

There, a little more than two hours southwest of Houston, the Victoria Advocate has covered the story of Hurricane Harvey and the storms that have followed while dealing with loss of power, no water and a displaced staff.

An Investigative Post analysis of state data shows the Niagara Falls sewer system has spewed more than a half - billion gallons of raw sewage mixed with storm water into the Lower Niagara River since May 2016.

is redrawing our coastlines, altering where we can grow food, changing where we can find water, exposing us to fiercer storms and more severe droughts.

He added that the storm would have been far more catastrophic had the state not taken the steps it did for upstate, which included drawing down water levels in some reservoirs and evacuating camp grounds.

«The facts are clear: The IJC had the ability to cnduct proper long - raneg forecasting and release more water from Lake Ontario before the April storms began.

He also noted that the Adirondack Park Agency has recommended that shoreline property owners replace their existing docks with floating docks to avoid damage incurred from the storms which have occasionally dumped 10 or more inches of water on the lake's watershed.

Entrants were asked to interpret this year's theme in a vibrant, eye - catching way in an effort for contestants to learn more about storm water pollution prevention and how it keeps pollutants out of our local waterways.

And when the company was close to securing a storm - water contract from Nassau County, the senator, through an intermediary, pressured the company to pay his son more — or risk having the senator subvert the bid.

But far more lucrative was a consultant position that Mr. Dorego arranged for Adam Skelos at AbTech, which seeks government contracts to treat storm water.

There are clues that these species may fare better than their stony counterparts after a disaster, but more research needs to be done to understand how storms, warming waters and ocean acidification can alter the composition of reefs and whether these changes are permanent or short - lived, Lasker says.

«If you pull more water out, it will take longer to recharge,» said Harold Brooks, a research meteorologist with the National Severe Storms Laboratory in Oklahoma.

This decreases natural storm runoff during high - flow winter months while contributing proportionately more water to streamflows during the drier months that make up about 80 percent of the region's calendar year.

Specifically, they found that during El Niño Modoki events, when drought was occurring in central India, the mineral chemistry suggested more localized storm events occurred above the cave, while during the non-El Niño periods, the water that seeped into the cave had traveled much farther before it fell, which is the typical monsoon pattern.

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.

But climate change has brought milder winters, warmer sea temperatures and bigger storms, which create a vicious cycle that promises less sea ice and more wind and open water to generate ice - crushing waves.

The Shallow Radar experiment will peer 30 feet or more below the Martian surface to detect buried water ice; another instrument, an infrared radiometer, will monitor dust storms and other atmospheric disturbances.

According to the researchers, to better understand if Matthew's intensification was aided by the warm - water eddies and the residing barrier layer in the Caribbean Sea's upper ocean, more ambient and in - storm upper ocean observations in this basin are needed to improve forecast models for the region.

As a result, a small storm in February pushed hundreds of millions of litres of water into the aquifer below — far more than normal.

«Even though it's raining more overall, each storm is less intense and drops less water,» Singer said.

Heat - reflecting white ice has given way to heat - absorbing dark water; snow has melted ever earlier on surrounding lands; more heat - trapping moisture has entered the atmosphere; and bigger waves and storms have assailed weakening ice.

While there has been a lot of research about storm disasters and the benefits of some kinds of flood reduction, this is the first research to determine joint monetary estimates of multiple benefits to society of modern storm water, including environmental improvements more complex than just reduced water pollution.

Ocean waters in the eastern Pacific Ocean have also been higher because of El Niño, which has also helped the storm pull in more moisture, Ken Kunkel, a climate scientist with the National Centers for Environmental Information, said in an email.

This is because a warmer atmosphere evaporates more water from the ground, making it available for heavier precipitation within individual storms.

Those waters also make more moisture available to storms.

That may be due to exceptionally warm Indian Ocean waters providing more moisture to storm systems.

A dead zone in the Chesapeake Bay also has shrunk in recent years, Magnien said, because of major advances in wastewater treatment, sediment and storm water controls, soil management practices, and more selective and precise applications of fertilizer.

«With increasing changes in weather patterns and more frequent severe storms, we need to look at bigger opportunities to create more water storage further up our river catchments.

Continued warming of low latitude oceans in coming decades will provide more water vapor to strengthen such storms.

The warmer ocean waters mean more moisture in the atmosphere for the storm to suck up; the cold air over the continent ensures that moisture falls as snow.

The ragtag crews facing gale - force winds in the waters off Massachussets inevitably brings to mind The Perfect Storm, but The Finest Hours, while probably a tad more authentic, lacks that film's vitality.

A week after Hurricane Maria, the strongest storm to hit Puerto Rico in decades, there's less immediate concern about when schools will reopen and more about when children and families will have access to food, running water, and power.

I stared down into the churning water, the long grass of the bank trailing in its eddies, the currents at the shore lapping more roughly with the stirring up of the storm and the added rain.

When you have the largest Atlantic storm in recorded history that is being feed by unusually warm ocean waters (+5 °F) and is being steered in a very unusual direction by a «3 - sigma» blocking higher over Greenland after the largest Arctic sea ice melt in human history, you might want to consider the «steroid» hypothesis a bit more.

Today's century levels become «decade» (having a chance of 10 % annually) or more frequent events at about a third of the study gauges, and the majority of locations see substantially higher frequency of previously rare storm - driven water heights in the future.

i.e. converting some to mechanical energy in the form of storms and moving more to the planetary heat sinks of the poles and deeper water.

This argument hinges on the contention that more water vapor means greater density of water droplets in the active rising updraft of the storm clouds.