Sentences with phrase «runoff from»

Lawns help reduce water runoff from rain and absorb summer heat, as well as providing a soft play area for kids.

There was a gigantic rain tank that collected runoff from the roof, a tiny office, and he sold the bedding plants out the back door in spring.

The purpose of this is to keep groundwater from seeping in to your basement from below, or surface runoff from making its way in.

Lowland wells could be subject to pollution or runoff from surrounding properties.

As an example, the idea behind Shoemaker Green, a new park at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, was to create a «large bathtub» to capture and recycle the stormwater and HVAC runoff from the surrounding buildings.

In this case, the Ninth Circuit held that every culvert and ditched that channeled rainwater runoff from forest roads was a discharge from a point source, requiring a Clean Water Act permit.

The judge concluded that, whether it was a chunk of ice that had fallen from the median or a patch of refrozen runoff from the snow pile, the ice that caused the plaintiff's fall was a «natural accumulation.»

«Our finding that there is also significant iron discharged in runoff from large ice sheet catchments is new.

In 1983, Smith saw firsthand the ecological effects that selenium can have on wildlife when he discovered deformed juvenile birds at Kesterson National Wildlife Refuge, which was fed by agricultural runoff from Westlands.

In one instance in 2000, writes Kevin Holden at National Geographic, thousands of farmers in the Yellow River Basin of eastern China clashed with police over a government plan to recapture runoff from a local reservoir for cities, industries, and other users.

Not only does it cut our water usage, it keeps runoff from going into the sewer system.

It's been known for many years that the surface waters of Arctic Ocean are freshened by melting sea - ice and runoff from rivers.

Runoff from chemical inputs and CAFO waste pollutes our water and contributes to global warming; monoculture — planting a single crop over a large area year after year — depletes soil and reduces biodiversity; overuse of antibiotics in meat production threatens our ability to fight human disease.

(It will prevent up to 3.6 million gallons of runoff from carrying pollutants into the eco-system each year, according to data supplied by the museum.)

«Loss of snow cover and associated spring runoff from this reservoir will affect wide regions,» Rind adds.

A significant fraction of OHC rise below 700 meters can be accomplished through warmer river runoff from the continents.

But Homestead Economics has a neat video of their rainwater garden system, which collects stormwater runoff from a long dirt driveway, diverts it to carefully designed grow beds surrounded by a berm, and then collects any excess water in a retention pond for future irrigation.

Agricultural pesticide and industrial waste runoff from the Mississippi River spews into the Gulf constantly, creating a dead zone in which no seafood can survive.

The thickness of the remaining, multi-year ice, along with its geographic location, will make it more difficult to melt than the ice that was spread across the Arctic, and exposed to Pacific and Atlantic ocean currents, along with runoff from fresh water rivers.

What I would like to know is, what do global climate models say about the depth of the warm oceanic layer in the Gulf of Mexico and elsewhere near the U.S., both under the standard assumptions and under assumptions of greater runoff from Greenland which almost all glaciologists seem to find most likely.

The runoff from Zongo glacier flows through 10 hydropower plants that currently generate some 25 percent of Bolivia's electricity.

In 2009, Nairobi had rolling blackouts due to the diminished runoff from the mountain flowing to hydropower stations.

The runoff from farms has lead to a persistent «dead zone» at the foot of America's mightiest river.

Discharge from sewage treatment plants and runoff from agricultural fields contaminate bodies of water with excess phosphorus, leading to eutrophication.

But that doesn't mean that runoff from the rainfall basin will ever produce that amount.

The Cimarron Watershed in New Mexico has experienced significant nonpoint source pollution, stemming from recreation and tourism development as well as runoff from forests, private ranch land, and range land.

In addition to direct rainfall, stormwater runoff from surrounding impervious surfaces, such as sidewalks and rooftops, can be directed in to the rain garden so it can be absorbed into the ground.

Polluted runoff from both rural and urban lands increases erosion and puts public health at risk by contaminating drinking water supplies.

«Future warming and increased runoff from precipitation mean that nutrient inputs to many lakes must be reduced if they are to maintain the same ecological state they are in today,» the researchers wrote.

With the green revolution technology of chemical inputs, runoff from agriculture farms entering oceans and creating dead zones — zero oxygen — like thousands of square kilometers in Gulf of Mexico.

He said that from this it is clear that the oceans are declining rapidly due to three reasons — global warming, pollution caused by runoff from agriculture fields, and Arcatic sea ice loss.

Furthermore, the IPCC does not include freshwater runoff from GIS melt.

This process prevents stormwater runoff from entering the City's sewer systems.

Green infrastructure promotes the natural movement of water by collecting and managing stormwater runoff from streets, sidewalks, parking lots and rooftops and directing it to engineered systems that typically feature soils, stones, and vegetation.

However, it remains a major scientific challenge to model and project the changes of the magnitude and intensity of subsurface oxygen depletion because it depends on changes in ocean circulation, rates of de-nitrification, and nutrient runoff from land, and because global data coverage for chemical and biological parameters remains poor.

Or for agicutural runoff from the great barrier reef which enhances recruitment of crown of thorns starfish which have destroyed 50 % of the reef in the past 20 years.

Other factors for the observed 7 percent increase in runoff from 1936 to 1999 could be changes in ice and permafrost melt or changes in the seasonality of precipitation and runoff, he said.

rooflite soil systems also mimic natural soil profiles to support healthy root environments and vigorous plant growth, an essential part of minimizing and delaying any water runoff from the roof.

http://www.epa.gov/salish-sea/shellfish-harvesting Nearly 183,000 acres (739 square kilometres) of shellfish beds are currently closed to harvesting in the Georgia Basin, and about 36,000 acres (147 square kilometres) are closed in Puget Sound... The primary sources of pollution that lead to closure of shellfish harvesting areas are polluted runoff from urban areas and farms, and uncontrolled sources of sewage and septic wastes.

For example, agricultural runoff from Montana ends up in the Gulf of Mexico.

The heavy runoff from the high elevations of the Cascade Range in the late spring and summer makes it possible for Washington to generate vast quantities of hydroelectric power.

His brief was to make a new, green truck plant, and to solve the problem of runoff from the site, which had poisoned the river for almost a century.

More rainfall and runoff from a warmer sea surface in the eastern Pacific washes more red sediment into the lake.

Species that live downslope will also be hurt by changes on mountaintops; the Sierra Nevada mountain yellow - legged frog, for example, depends on runoff from snowpack year - round to support its three - to four - year life stage as a tadpole, and earlier spring snowmelt runoff caused by global warming may leave this hardy, once - abundant creature high and dry in the summertime.

Furthermore, less of this energy can be used for evaporation in urban areas, which characteristically exhibit greater precipitation runoff from streets and buildings.

New York City has great quality tap water because the city invested in water protection by purchasing land around its Catskills reservoirs to ensure that polluted runoff from roads and lawns doesn't enter the water supply.The city's $ 600 million investment in Catskills land protection and restoration did the job of $ 6 billion in capital costs to construct a water filtration plant as well as $ 200 - 300 million in annual operation and maintenance costs.

This causes stagnent seas which with the massive runoff from the land carrying huge nutrient loads become huge algal bloom fields.

Runoff from snowmelt is regarded as a vital water source for people and ecosystems throughout the Northern Hemisphere (NH).

Our scenarios demonstrated that gains in runoff from thinning could occur even under drought conditions.

Difference between these two values, shown with blue shading, is additional runoff from forest thinning treatments.