Sentences with phrase «of drainage channels»

This integrated approach includes: the construction of drainage channels, incorporating «urban greening» such as wetlands and environmental buffers; the creation of flood warning systems; and improved land planning to counter the effects of potential flooding.

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ACO has recently developed a range of hygienic drainage channels and gullies, specially designed for food processing and commercial kitchen applications.

He listed some of the areas where properties were erected on drainage channels to include Illubirin, Dolphin Estate, Osborne Foreshore Estate, Ikoyi, Osapa London, Ikota, Ogombo, Lekki, among others, noting that the massive investment of public fund into drainage clearing and de-silting had been compromised by structures hindering the free - flow of water.

Recall that the state government last Sunday ordered owners of properties erected on drainage channels and impeding the free - flow of water to immediately vacate or risk being removed.

He ascribed cause of the flooding to the recent construction of flyover in the area by the past government, stating that the drainage systems in the area had been channel through the market while the gutters are not big enough to contain the floods whenever it rains.

Neufeld's group recently found that the enzyme nitric oxide synthase 2 (NOS - 2), which produces toxic levels of the gas nitric oxide, is active in the eyes of rats that have their eyes» drainage channels blocked, causing an artificial form of glaucoma.

Shifts in subglacial drainage patterns change the location of these basal channels, which could impact the ice shelf's stability by unevenly distributing the melting at the base.

«The Little River levee and Little River Drainage District Headwaters Diversion channel built in the 1910s successfully permitted the drainage of the 1.2 million acres Big Swamp in southeast MDrainage District Headwaters Diversion channel built in the 1910s successfully permitted the drainage of the 1.2 million acres Big Swamp in southeast Mdrainage of the 1.2 million acres Big Swamp in southeast Missouri.

In this project we intend to show that we can insert healthy copies of a damaged gene into the fluid drainage channels inside the eye and normalize eye pressure.

RPB investigators are using Spectral Domain Optical Coherence Tomography, a new high definition and high speed imaging technique, to study the drainage channels in different types of glaucoma, and also to study retinal tissue loss to detect early glaucoma in people at risk.

a: arrows point to one of several thin, orange pumice lapilli lenses typical of those found throughout the MV - 7 stratum containing the archaeological horizons; b: ventral side of a percussion flaked tool embedded in a 2 cm thick tephra lens located on an uneroded, elevated surface between narrow drainage channels in stratum MV - 7, Unit 56 (see Fig 6b for a close - up of the dorsal side of the flake); c: typical micro-setting where thin orange lenses form during the summer months in shallow humid grassy areas at Monte Verde.

Manufacturers of this tape, such as Rocktape and Spidertape, claim that unlike traditional athletic tape, kinesiotape increases fluid drainage through special channels formed in the skin, and may alter joint motion through the elastic tension applied to the tape (3).

The Hauraton RECYFIX ® PRO 100 channel system, fitted with FIBRETEC ® C250, HEELSAFE 9 mm slot gratings was specified by NPS Group of Norwich, and used to provide perimeter drainage right around the school building.

Using natural channels and basins which follow the contours of the site and ground to control water run - off during rainfall, water is dispersed naturally rather than disposed of to artificial drainage systems.

Cruising through the waterways of southern Holland, my school geography lessons of polders and drainage channels, windmills and dairy farming sprung vividly to life.

The insulation stops short of the upstand and has a drainage channel, as well as the upstand itself not being insulated.

Build an ice cap on that; you get water and silt being extruded out of the basins, even flowing «uphill» under that pressure; look at the radar maps, the ice may have pushed a lot of silt out to its edges over time, you can see the pattern of river drainage channels in the radar imagery.

Efficient surface drainage was routed through 523 high - order stream / river channel networks, all of which terminated in moulins before reaching the ice edge.

Drainage conduit was embedded with the gravel in order to channel rainwater away from the foundation and into his garden, which is rampant this time of year with gooseberries, elderberries and currants.

The factors which he did regard as relevant were: (i) the complete change in the structure of the channel; (ii) the change in the route of the channel; (iii) the change in the nature of the flow; (iv) the fact that the channel was used for the drainage of buildings and yards appurtenant to buildings; (v) the fact that many tributary conduits were themselves sewers properly so called; (vi) the description given to the channel in documents from 1951 onwards; (vii) the capacity of the channel; and (viii) the occasional presence of foul sewage in the channel.

Performed oversight of construction activities such as the grading and compaction of material above and below the liner closure system, installation of site drainage channels and piping systems, and repairs to damaged existing landfill gas system that occurred during construction activities.

The bottom of the sink has channel grooves to divert water for proper drainage.