Sentences with phrase «of nearby rivers»

Visitors can soak in the sun, or take guided tours of the nearby rivers and dense mangrove forests, untouched natural areas teeming with colorful tropical birds and other exotic wildlife.

As much a third of the glacial ice above the crater has melted — it had been up to 250 meters thick in spots — raising the level of a nearby river by nearly a meter and covering some roads.

Think crickets, birds, together with the sweet sound of a nearby river lulling you to sleep.

3 Nights of sparkling clear water of the nearby river, the shimmering spray of five sisters waterfalls and the contrasting green of the forests and jungle adventures at Gaia Jungle Lodge, then off for 4 nights to the grandeur of the Belize Caribbean Sea at Chabil Mar in Placencia Village to mingle with marine life and howler monkeys alike.

Not exact matches

Native Americans march to a burial ground sacred site that was disturbed by bulldozers building the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL), near the encampment where hundreds of people have gathered to join the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe's protest of the oil pipeline that is slated to cross the Missouri River nearby, Sept. 4, 2016 near Cannon Ball, North Dakota.

At this point parts of the city were completely under water after nearby dykes broke in the flooding that devastated many river communities along the Danube that week.

The Committee noted that a federal investigation into the famous 2010 pipeline spill in Marshall, Michigan, which released some 20,000 barrels of dilbit into the nearby Kalamazoo River, «did not report that specific properties of the products transported through the pipeline at the time of the event or in the past had caused or contributed to the pipeline damage.»

Poteau was named after the nearby Poteau River and today, has a population of more than 8,500 residents.

South of the city, about 4,500 inmates were evacuated from three state prisons in Brazoria County because the nearby Brazos River was rising.

Nearly two years ago, Flint city officials, under the guidance of a state - appointed emergency fiscal manager, switched their city's water supply from Lake Huron to the nearby polluted Flint River.

The Bible reports that Moses led the twelve tribes out of Egypt and that after forty years of desert migration they finally crossed the Jordan River from the east, captured nearby Jericho and proceeded to conquer the whole area by a series of eminently successful campaigns.

The Samara of Marco Polo's account, and the nearby Basma to which he refers, have been identified as Samudra and Pasé, two towns separated by the Pasé River, a short distance above Perlak.

It's really a sight as the clear river water swirls around the top of the watermelon, just off the bank with some stragically placed rocks placed nearby to stop it from being taken downstream and picked off by someone in a cabin in the next county.

The nearby banks of the River Elbe are ideal for a morning run, relaxed stroll or bicycle ride.

Wanting more out of life, he purchased a small Greek revival home at 200 Prairie Street alongside the Rock River in nearby Rockford, Illinois in 1849 and founded his own brewery: Peacock Brewery.

The village of Stockholm takes pride in their heritage with holiday events nearby the Mississippi River's Lake Pepin.

For one, the farm's location is spectacular, with its beautiful green hills, its historic groves of cottonwood trees, and the nearby rolling Colorado River.

Community groups, Scouts, students, residents and families are invited to come together for a «One Day» service project targeting portions of the Fox River and nearby Fox Valley Park District...

In addition to serving the families on base, Camp Lejeune works with the nearby Marine Corps Air Station New River, as well as the Onslow County (N.C.) Parks and Recreation Department and the City of Jacksonville (N.C.) Recreation and Parks Department to serve the 2,500 children that sign up for their youth sports offerings each year.

The Green Mountains are home to some of the most popular whitewater rafting runs in Vermont and are the headwaters for nearby rivers in western Massachusetts.

The Green Mountains are home to some of the most popular whitewater rafting runs in Vermont and are the headwaters for nearby rivers in western MA.

In one U.S. town, one such company is responsible for discharging approximately 50 million gallons / day of wastewater into a nearby river.

Some of the PFOA - tainted water will end up in the nearby Hoosic River, state officials acknowledge.

Residents of Dutchtown, a small neighborhood in Rockland County, awoke Sunday morning to the stench of diesel fuel blowing in off the nearby Hudson River.

When completed and connected to the nearby River Center, a restored barn, the array will provide 25 percent of the electricity to power the barn, said Margery Groten, Scenic Hudson's senior project manager.

(WBEN) Despite a steady drizzle, new views of the Niagara River, the Bird Island Pier, Canada and the Peace Bridge were in the spotlight Tuesday morning as Congressman Brian Higgins celebrated the completion of a new trail project that includes a pedestrian bridge over the NYS Thruway, echoing the bridge to Canada nearby.

And a cleanup continues of oil from the transformer that leaked into the nearby Hudson River.

It includes the headwaters of the Hudson River and the house from which then - Vice President Theodore Roosevelt began his hurried midnight ride to the presidency after hiking up nearby Mt. Marcy.

About 4,500 inmates were evacuated from three state prisons in Brazoria County south of Houston because the nearby Brazos River is rising from Hurricane Harvey's heavy rain.

Inwood residents who have sent letters of support to Parks Department Commissioner William Castro and Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer describe a «lost connection» to the nearby river.

Features like giant gravel current ripples and displaced 65 - foot - wide boulders in the Scablands could not be explained by changes in the nearby Columbia River, he wrote — the flow and volume of whatever water source formed them would have to be exponentially larger.

The central government's Ministry of Environmental Protection responded in June, suspending the Xiaonanhai project pending further review — along with two other nearby dams in the Jinsha River already under construction.

In Monrovia, Liberia's capital, «the true number of deaths will likely never be known,» WHO wrote — some of the bodies have simply been thrown into the two nearby rivers.

To the residents of Donora, Pa., a mill town in a crook of the Monongahela River, the daily haze from nearby zinc and steel plants was the price of keeping their families fed.

New lakes in the Republic of Belarus are continuing to become colonized two hundred years after zebra mussels first invaded nearby rivers.

There has not been a documented sighting of these cetaceans, which lived in China's Yangtze River and nearby lakes, since 2002.

Kennewick Man, named after Kennewick in Washington state, was discovered in July 1996 after more than 9000 years buried in the banks of the nearby Columbia river.

In the southern city of Seville, where last year the glittering Expo took place against a backdrop of fountains, water was cut off for 12 hours a day until earlier this summer, when an emergency water abstraction works opened on the nearby Guadalquivir river.

For ores that contain even less concentrated uranium — McArthur River is the most concentrated active mine — the proportion of waste in radium and other radioactive elements (as well as toxic heavy metals such as arsenic and mercury) is even higher — and McArthur River's uranium is much less concentrated than the mines of the past like nearby Rabbit Lake or Shinkolobwe in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's Katanga Province.

The nearby confluence of the Illinois, Missouri, and Mississippi rivers could have put Cahokia at the nexus of trade networks that spanned much of the continent.

[iStockPhoto / Aqualand Photography] LAS VEGAS — Concerned about ebbing water levels at nearby Lake Mead and the future of the Colorado River that fills it, southern Nevada's water management agency aims to...

Despite a few setbacks — the river's powerful flow damaged the rotors and broke off some of the original fiberglass and steel blades — the company has managed to keep two of the turbines operational, supply electricity to a nearby supermarket and, more recently, attract $ 8.5 million in funding from sources including the U.S. Department of Energy and the Canadian government to further develop and test its technology.

Wild bonobo populations are entirely contained in that river system, separated from two nearby subspecies of chimps, the eastern and central subspecies.

The scientists have also detected resistance genes for sulphonamides and another antibiotic in the treated wastewater — which will be turned into snow at a nearby ski resort, in a relatively pristine part of a river basin, later this year.

Nearby, guided tours in inflatable kayaks travel the last leg of the salmon's route along the river.

With a sudden gush, some 3 million gallons (about 11 million liters) of acidic, heavy - metal - laden water flooded into Cement Creek, a tributary of the nearby Animas River.

Here, nuggets of placer gold have accumulated locally in river gravels in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada, where primary gold - quarz veins provide a nearby source of the nuggets.

No matter how you burn it, you still have to mine it — dumping West Virginia mountaintops into nearby rivers, gouging huge scars into the earth in Montana or Wyoming, and exposing miners to the risk of injury or death.

DOE has spent billions of dollars over several decades trying to prevent a hazardous stew of wastes produced during and after World War II and stored in dozens of underground tanks from leaking into the nearby Columbia River.

«Uranium dissolved in groundwater flows slowly into nearby rivers, where it becomes diluted below the uranium concentrations naturally present in river water,» says John Bargar, SLAC's project lead and researcher at the lab's Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL), a DOE Office of Science User Facility.