Sentences with phrase «runoff into»

The goal was worthy — to reduce runoff into the Chesapeake Bay — but the requirement wasn't.

Second, it reduces potentially toxic runoff into city sewers, which reduces the volume of water and overall wear on city infrastructure and also reduces the environmental impact of municipal waste water.

The latent heat flux values were apportioned between ocean and land as in Trenberth et al. (2007a) by assuming an observationally based runoff into the ocean of 40 × 103 km3 year − 1 (Trenberth et al. 2007a).

Study team member Robert Dudley says global warming could be involved but that the aim of the study was only to determine whether snowmelt runoff into rivers was increasing or decreasing; it will be up to other scientists to examine what factors might be responsible for the trend they found.

Controlling fertilizer runoff into the Chesapeake Bay is paying off.

Not only would reversing this decline help draw some of the excess carbon out of the atmosphere, but it would also help mitigate the impacts of climate change by reducing flooding, increasing food production, and preventing runoff into rivers and streams.

Really you need to take into account the effect on individual health and diet of the food itself, any residues on it, the effect on farmers» lives, on community's lives, on the health of the animals in field, of the crops and the crop yield, on the climate impact, on runoff into rivers, streams and oceans, on the economic system in which the farms operate, and more.

The sight and smell was horrible, it leached toxic runoff into two streams that ran adjacent to the pile causing damage to the ecosystem and thousands of birds attracted to the garbage created safety hazards to planes flying to nearby airports.

The result is a forecast of more than 5 million acre feet of April - July runoff into Lake Powell, up from a forecast of just 3 million acre feet just a month ago.

Farmers on Maryland's Eastern Shore are breathing a sigh of relief on news that newly sworn - in Gov. Larry Hogan (R) plans to scrap regulations targeting agricultural runoff into the Chesapeake Bay.

It also warned of a fast drop in dissolved oxygen in seawater — with predictions of a 1 - 7 per cent decline by 2100 caused by the effects of global warming and nutrient runoff into the sea from agricultural fertilizers and sewage.

In turn, the amount of snow - and ice melt influences runoff into lowland rivers and the amounts of water recharging river - fed aquifers.

This reduces nitrogen runoff into waterways, which can cause algae blooms and kill aquatic species.

Their finding gives teeth to the long - held prediction that freshwater runoff into the ocean would increase in the Arctic as a result of global warming.

Changes in water runoff into rivers and streams are another expected consequence of climate change by the late 21st Century.

We haven't built the capability to divert some of this additional water runoff into our depleting groundwater aquifers (underwater storage of water), so most of it goes into the ocean or evaporates.

Runoff into Devils Lake in North Dakota has been excessive since 1995.

Well - known for her «living sculptures» which she calls «biosculptures,» the work of ecological artist Jackie Brookner is a collaborative and cross-disciplinary effort to create water remediation art projects that are public in nature - reclaiming wetlands, rivers, streams and stormwater runoff into revitalized environments - and bringing to awareness the gift of life that water brings.

Which leads me to another question — the melting glacial / Greenland / Antarctic ice water is depleted in CO2 (check out the bubbles in your ice cubes)-- how much additional CO2 is being sequestered by this runoff into the oceans, and what happens to CO2 increase when we run out of glaciers?

They are raised in inhumane conditions, in dirty, crowded operations that spew runoff into area groundwater, and are horribly mistreated.

Study team member Robert Dudley says global warming could be involved but that the aim of the study was only to determine whether snowmelt runoff into rivers was increasing or decreasing; it will be up to other scientists to examine what factors might be responsible for the trend they found.

More than 50 percent of all de-icing materials used on roads are made of sodium chloride (NaCl), and salt overspray and runoff into adjacent natural systems can change the physical and chemical environment.

Marginal areas are often currently set aside for conservation, both as a means to provide a habitat for wildlife as well as a way to protect it from agricultural runoff into waterways.

Sapphire recycles all its nitrogen and phosphorus leftovers so nothing is released as runoff into the environment.

But while National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration research shows that snowmelt runoff into the upper basin hasn't been this high since 1986, the southern end of the Colorado River continues to stop shy of the Sea of Cortez, where it used to run until the late 1990s.

«Severe harmful algal bloom predicted for Lake Erie in 2015: Second worst in century predicted: Heavy June rains causing heavy nutrient runoff into lake basin.»

Heavy downpours can overwhelm New York's antiquated 19th - century sewer systems, the miles of pipes and tunnels that carry away wastewater and, when overtaxed, divert billions of gallons of raw sewage and contaminated urban runoff into the rivers, lakes and the ocean.

Less rainfall to the area will mean reduced runoff into water basins that feed irrigated fields.

Such wetlands naturally convert the runoff into nitrogen gas that is released into the atmosphere.

Fertilizer and urban runoff into the Mississippi River dump nutrients into the Gulf of Mexico.

That, in turn, helps prevent erosion and runoff into rivers and streams.

Intensive use of pesticides in farming guarantees runoff into rivers and lakes.

MEDDLESOME MERCURY Increased runoff into Earth's oceans could increase methylmercury concentrations in marine ecosystems by altering the food web, new laboratory tests show.

«However, this is a costly process that can result in excessive nitrogen runoff into waterways, sometimes causing severe ecological damage.»

Regional climate change models predict an increased freshwater runoff into the Baltic Sea.

Improved access for the disabled was also provided, and hardy new plantings were put in place, which will help reduce rainwater runoff into the city's sewer system.

It's the next phase in the $ 87 million consent decree, a water and sewer separation project that is mandated by the state and federal governments to prevent future sewage runoff into Lake Ontario.

The DEC says the town's latest plan does not adequately address a core problem, the diversion of runoff into the sewage system from downspouts and sump pumps.

Biodiversity loss, environmental degradation and severe impacts on ecosystem services — which refer to nature's support of wildlife habitat, crop pollination, soil health and other benefits — have not only accompanied conventional farming systems, but have often extended well beyond the boundaries of their fields, such as fertilizer runoff into rivers.

One project she touted was the plan to stop untreated water runoffs into the Hudson River.

Not exact matches

It was clear several weeks ago that the markets did not expect any significant change and that a presidential runoff between Marine Le Pen and Emmanuel Macron had already been baked into the cake — factored into market activity.

Other parts of the lot have been turned into energy - efficient apartments, senior housing, a medical center, more retail space, and a bioswale that keeps runoff from the nearby creek away.

In addition, water collection systems channel rain and irrigation runoff water back into the ground.

They fell apart a little bit as I loaded them into the baked pie crust, but not too much, and the finished pie had just the right amount of moisture without any liquid runoff.

The agreement to buy Toohey Park permits a certain amount of water runoff from the Sunny Ridge site to flow into a pond at the park, but parks officials said they want to ensure that the project doesn't send too much water into the park.

The stabilization project started after officials found that storm water runoff was eroding the banks of the stream and depositing pollutants into existing wetlands, according to the Park District.

Currently, BPA - contaminated water such as industrial waste or landfill runoff may or may not be treated before it's released into the environment or to wastewater treatment plants.

However, if no one has majority support then the top two candidates go into a runoff stage, and the candidates placed third, fourth, fifth etc are all eliminated at the same time.

But the gush of online money has slowed, and it didn't translate into long - term financial edge, as Fletcher entered the runoff with four times more campaign cash on hand than Moser.

Conventional wisdom, Muzzio has said, is that, as the only black candidate in the race, Thompson has an automatic base of 25 to 30 percent, which at least guarantees that he makes it into a runoff.