Sentences with phrase «release of flood waters»

Failure of the auxiliary spillway structure will result in an uncontrolled release of flood waters from Lake Oroville.»

Not exact matches

This can however be complicated if the sources of additional water (e.g. the storage from which environmental water is released) is also affected or if local waterways are flooded and the threat of third party impacts is great.

Ulster County residents want New York City to spend more money locally on dealing with flooding and muddy water, and New York State has promised to involve the public in defining the scope of environmental impact studies of the city's turbid water releases into the lower Esopus.

Water Update • The Suffolk County Department of Health Services (SCDHS) has received reports of fuel spills and potential sewage releases in areas that continue to be affected by standing floodwater, including Lindenhurst, Mastic and several other low - lying areas of the County that have been flooded by Hurricane Sandy.

The International Lake Ontario — St. Lawrence River Board meets on Monday to talk about the release of water throughout the system and the recent flooding along the river and the south shore of the lake.

Previously, some teams have proposed that these floods resulted when immense subterranean reservoirs of ice were suddenly melted by the rise of molten material from deep within the Red Planet, and others have suggested that the water was carried from distant regions via aquifers and then somehow abruptly released.

This week, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne personally supervised the release of 41,500 cubic feet (1,175 cubic meters) of water per second over a 60 - hour period to mimic a natural flood that will enlarge existing sandbars.

Then it could be used by the homeowners as non-potable water to save money or simply released after the risk of flood is gone.

At electrical breakdown, the energies in the surging electrons were thousands of times greater than 10 — 19 MeV, so during the flood, bremsstrahlung radiation released a sea of neutrons throughout the crust.83 Subterranean water absorbed many of these neutrons, converting normal hydrogen (1H) into heavy hydrogen (2H, called deuterium) and normal oxygen (16O) into 18O.

The new rules would have protected 90 percent of the Houston homes that flooded last August, excluding those affected by water released from U.S. Army Corps of Engineers reservoirs.

A flash flood is a sudden release of water that inundates an area, and is differentiated from a normal flood by its duration; by definition, a flash flood lasts less than six hours.

I would go so far, in light of the efforts of the current administration, the EPA, and of late even NASA to «manage» findings by climate scientists that someone intended for the press release from the USGS Newsroom to keep the public in the dark regarding this point as they proclaimed: «Century of Data Shows Intensification of Water Cycle but No Increase in Storms or Floods»

«Century of Data Shows Intensification of Water Cycle but No Increase in Storms or Floods Released: 3/15/2006 12:13:21 PM» (excerpt) A review of the findings from more than 100 peer - reviewed studies shows that although many aspects of the global water cycle have intensified, including precipitation and evaporation, this trend has not consistently resulted in an increase in the frequency or intensity of tropical storms or floods over the past cenWater Cycle but No Increase in Storms or Floods Released: 3/15/2006 12:13:21 PM» (excerpt) A review of the findings from more than 100 peer - reviewed studies shows that although many aspects of the global water cycle have intensified, including precipitation and evaporation, this trend has not consistently resulted in an increase in the frequency or intensity of tropical storms or floods over the past ceFloods Released: 3/15/2006 12:13:21 PM» (excerpt) A review of the findings from more than 100 peer - reviewed studies shows that although many aspects of the global water cycle have intensified, including precipitation and evaporation, this trend has not consistently resulted in an increase in the frequency or intensity of tropical storms or floods over the past cenwater cycle have intensified, including precipitation and evaporation, this trend has not consistently resulted in an increase in the frequency or intensity of tropical storms or floods over the past cefloods over the past century.

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land - use change, deforestation, dams, reservoirs, other effects of urbanisation, other hydraulic influences such as regulated water releases, changing channel capacity and / or implementation of flood prevention measures.

With warm oceans releasing more water vapour, we saw floods of biblical proportions hit the agricultural regions of Queensland, killing 22 people and impacting an area larger than France and Germany.

Oil — > Transport, Electricity — > 1) C02 and 10x stronger or so CH4 in air — > Global Warming — > Draughts, Hurricanes, Floods — > Lost crops, forests, homes — > CO2 fixing potential lost, Starvation, Diseases, More ressources / energy needed 2) C02 and 10x stronger or so CH4 in air — > Global Warming — > Ice caps and glaciers metling — > Earth natural climate stabilizers lost + massive CH4 release from pergelisoils & ancient ice melt 3) CO2 in water — > Oceans acidification — > Destruction of centennial / millenial coral reefs — > Loss of oceans» filters / pulmons / incubators / biodiversity reservoir — > Food shortage

Earlier and larger releases of water could overwhelm California's water storage facilities, creating risk of floods and water shortages.»

It would do you well to check up on why wet - lands need to be dried and flooded on a regular basis... the inflow of sediments and the build - up of toxic algaes and nitrous and associated elements in wetlands demand attention be paid to flush these systems out at regular intervals... you may remember the damaging blooms of blue - green algae back some years ago because of a sudden release into the river system of infected stored - water.

[A report commissioned by the British government and scheduled to be released today calls for spending to be doubled worldwide on research into low - carbon technologies; without it, the report says, coastal flooding and a shortage of drinking water could turn 200 million people into refugees.]

Engineers from the California Department of Water Resources hope that a combination of releasing 800,000 acre feet of water from the lake will be enough to prevent another Oroville Dam fWater Resources hope that a combination of releasing 800,000 acre feet of water from the lake will be enough to prevent another Oroville Dam fwater from the lake will be enough to prevent another Oroville Dam flood.

The home is not in a flood plain, but like many Houston homes, it flooded when the Army Corps of Engineers released water from a nearby reservoir to relieve pressure on a damn.