Sentences with phrase «of stormwater runoff»

Among the uses of the compost is the filtration of stormwater runoff from water before it returns to the water table.

Californians can counteract the negative impacts of stormwater runoff by promoting water infiltration at our houses or businesses.

They focused on three policies for climate adaptation: restrictions on coastal development, limits on outdoor residential water use and regulation of stormwater runoff from residential property.

The concentrations of salt mimicked concentrations found in nature, ranging from the low concentrations found in drinking water (30 and 80 milligrams chloride per liter), to higher concentrations that are more typical of stormwater runoff ponds (230 and 780 milligrams chloride per liter).

This hands - on, educational tool is illustrating issues of stormwater runoff, pollution, erosion, and providing a real world application of core mathematical concepts.»

Thanks to our Green City, Clean Waters program, thousands of green tools like rain gardens and stormwater tree planters across the city soak up tens of millions of gallons of stormwater runoff each time we have a substantial storm.

These include reducing the volume and velocity of stormwater runoff, improving stormwater quality, moderating the urban heat island effect, adding urban green space, and improving buildings» thermal performance and energy efficiency.

«Gazing at its beauty, it is easy to forget one of the roof's most practical benefits: the prevention of stormwater runoff — an issue about which my colleagues in the Water Program are hard at work spreading the word.

,» provides an overview of stormwater, describing the negative impacts of stormwater runoff on human health and the environment and introducing strategies to eliminate stormwater runoff.

The basis of her research is that GSI strategies have the potential to mitigate the downstream effects of stormwater runoff in the urban environment.

Subsurface Detention Systems with infiltration capability provide temporary storage of stormwater runoff underground.

Rain gardens are vegetated or landscaped depressions designed with an engineered soil layer that promotes infiltration of stormwater runoff into the underlying soil.