Sentences with phrase «of drainage ditches»

These include the construction of drainage ditches in the mountainside to carry away any meltwater, new waterproof walls inside the entrance tunnel and moving the transformer station out of the tunnel to eliminate a heat source and make for easier maintenance.

So it's interesting that Pearce - Higgins mentions Forsinard in the presser, especially given the significant effect of drainage ditches there.

Mass Audubon generally opposes construction, maintenance, and enlargement of drainage ditches in freshwater wetlands for nuisance mosquito control purposes.

Not exact matches

I did see the picture of the pitch in the middle of the prison when trying to match up Google Earth and some old maps (which put the Manor Ground immediately southwest of the prison, and, by inference, the Sportsman a tad southwest of that and nearer to the canal and drainage ditches that, I assume, were the source of the flooding, but we are only talking a difference of field or two at most; and if you have primary sources, I'll bow to those).

Plans for Sunnyside Park call for keeping the tennis courts on the west side of the park, next to the wastewater treatment plant, and connecting the courts to the east side of the park with an asphalt path, with a bridge over the central drainage ditch.

Suffolk County has tentatively agreed to pay $ 4.9 million to settle a lawsuit with Corinne Bednoski, of Peconic, who was severely injured when her car ran off a county road in 2006 and hit an unprotected drainage pipe in a median ditch.

Again, a kid playing with explosives in a drainage ditch has no intent of harming anything, the same construction in a theater doesn't have to explode, it only has to be discovered and incite panic.

To the above example, «a kid playing with an atomic bomb in a drainage ditch has no intent of harming anything..»

In the autumn of 1913, two farmers were arguing about hominid skull fragments they had uncovered while digging a drainage ditch.

We suspect that it might have been a repair of the drainage system and ditch work alongside the road.

Because the interior diameters of these pipes are small, rain - deposited wastes temporarily back - up in this glorified drainage ditch.

It also suggests that the Chinese government's long - running efforts to tame the Yellow River with levees, dikes and drainage ditches actually made periodic flooding much worse, setting the stage for a catastrophic flood circa A.D. 14 - 17, which likely killed millions and triggered the collapse of the Western Han Dynasty.

The Anshang site, discovered in 2012, includes the remains of a human - constructed levee and three irrigation / drainage ditches dating to the Zhou Dynasty (c. 1046 - 256 BC).

The Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco), which owns the plant, recorded high levels of radioactivity in a drainage ditch that runs to the sea from the tank, but could not detect anything in the seawater itself.

Salmonella is found in the feces of animals or in some habitats including ponds as drainage ditches.

The trio was accused of murdering three eight - year - old boys, hog - tying them and leaving them in a drainage ditch.

In drainage ditches and seeps, look for a delicate yellow flower, the seep monkey flower (Mimulus guttatus); a little later, look for its cousin on the drier hills of the scrubland, the sticky monkey flower (Mimulus aurantiacus).

Work will entail distributing approximately 200 cubic yards of fill materials onto the trail surface, and constructing a small low water crossing structure to allow passage over a drainage ditch.

With newly installed water control structures in the drainage ditches, they are able to control the rate and timing of wetland flooding to facilitate the forestry operations necessary for restoration — truly turning the historical human impact into conservation opportunity.

The report also noted that 2,000 barrels of the oil had fouled drainage ditches and a cove south of Lake Conway, a popular recreation area renowned for its fishing and scenic setting.

Governments should simply adopt their traditional role of funding tangible assets that can be used during emergencies and putting in place measures to prevent flooding by maintaining levees and drainage ditches.

In the hills of the Fichtelbirge, the Bergwaldprojekt therefore constructs small wooden dams which block former manmade ditches and drainage canals, so that the moor is able to regenerate itself.

Workers this week are trying to gauge the extent of Hurricane Harvey's damage on Harris County Flood Control District infrastructure, a network of 2,500 miles of bayous, creeks and drainage ditches designed to drain water out of Houston's flat topography and into Galveston Bay.

Conducting inspections of assigned facilities, grounds, ditches, drainage, water areas and marshes for infestation on pests

And when you think of all the swamps, drainage ditches, streams, rivers and lakes that eventually contribute water to a municipal drinking water system, well, you get the picture.