Sentences with phrase «of gallons of water onto»

Here, on June 17, a helicopter releases hundreds of gallons of water onto the Stetson Creek Fire near Cooper Landing, Alaska.

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Older kids generally take me up on my suggestion, but the younger kids usually look across the way to where I'm pointing, then return to methodically emptying those 5 gallon buckets onto the ground, or, when they get tired of that, into any other empty container they find to fill — a wagon, the inside of a tire, another watering can — but rarely the garden.

During a cold snap in 2010, farmers in the state strawberry capital of Plant City pumped millions of gallons of underground water onto their crops to save them — but ended up causing dozens of sinkholes.

As jets and wheels spray water throughout the entire structure, a 317 - gallon bucket drops a wave of water every five minutes onto those below.

When the tank was filled in April 2010 about 1,000 gallons of tritium - laden water poured onto the ground at a concentration of 2 million picocuries per liter.