Sentences with phrase «runoff water from»

«During the rainy season when floodwaters hit, the Puebloans would capture runoff water from small canyons known as the Rincons and local arroyos (periodic streams) such as Chaco Wash and the Escavada Wash..

Combined, these two adjustments would keep runoff water from overwhelming the city's aged sewer system, which today leads to raw waste being flushed into the river during storms.

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To catch the runoff from the melted snow, residents had wisely built a damn, but it was inefficient, providing water for only a few dozen families, and stirring up strife between neighbors desperate for its live - saving waters.

We filled our hands with cold running water from glacial runoff, drinking deeply.

Climate - smart agriculture promotes a number of water conservation practices, such as planting a buffer of trees and bushes along streams and rivers to prevent erosion and contamination from crop runoff.

Somewhere, perhaps at a truck stop along Interstate 80, just south of a fruit stand on the Yolo Causeway or maybe in the middle of a field watered by runoff from the Delta, sits a line.

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.

At 4 p.m., Sen. Tony Avella and residents call on the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to be transparent and take responsibility for the flooding caused by water runoff from the leaking Whitestone bridge, Whitestone Expressway and Fifth Avenue, Queens.

Overflowing sewers, runoff from chemical plants and seepage from toxic waste sites have created a hazardous stew in the waters covering much of the nation's fourth largest city, and officials are just beginning to grapple with the health problems looming.

The Thompson campaign has pointed out throughout the city comptroller's run for mayor that he has worked hard on environmental efforts, including attempting to stop natural gas drilling within or near the city's upstate watershed, which provides drinking water to the city's residents; calling for the preservation of wildlife space in the Ridgewood Reservoir; and issuing a report documenting the impact of airport congestion at the city's three major airports; and the rise in airport runoff, especially the flow from Kennedy Airport into marshes in Jamaica Bay.

Picente has asked the Oneida County Board of Legislators to commit $ 500,000 to address the public works projects within the municipalities that were severely impacted by the storm water runoff or flooding from their waterways or bodies of water.

Runoff of phosphorus from sources like lawn fertilizer can end up contributing to algae blooms in water sources — accelerated growth that can make lakes and ponds hostile to marine life and treacherous for swimmers and other recreational users.

Three main water quality issues were cited by Mr. Cuomo during his 20 - minute speech: an underground plume left by Northrup Grumman in Nassau county that measures one - by - three miles wide, runoff from mulching facilities on Long Island (of which there are 65) and saltwater intrusion.

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Water contamination from industrial sites and inadequate treatment facilities, agricultural and storm water runoff, aging pipes and other structural problems are among the problems that must be addressed to ensure New York has clean and lead - free drinking water, DiNapoli Water contamination from industrial sites and inadequate treatment facilities, agricultural and storm water runoff, aging pipes and other structural problems are among the problems that must be addressed to ensure New York has clean and lead - free drinking water, DiNapoli water runoff, aging pipes and other structural problems are among the problems that must be addressed to ensure New York has clean and lead - free drinking water, DiNapoli water, DiNapoli said.

AbTech is a small Arizona company that sells sponge - like filters that remove pollutants from water and can be used in sewers and on stormwater runoff.

An analysis of water and climate data from 1901 to 2008 from 100 large water basins around the world revealed more water loss to the atmosphere and less water runoff compared with conclusions from earlier studies.

What's interesting is that the sugar problem which is a real one allows you not to pay any attention as storm water runoff from suburban development.

Steve: When nutrients, it's usually phosphates, get into the waters of the Everglades, it really just disrupts the whole system — these are runoffs from mostly the sugar plantations, right?

The water that lies in its bed there is but a shallow, narrow swamp of salt and pesticide - laced runoff from crop irrigation.

That's why it's important to prevent contaminants from getting into the source water in the first place, for instance by installing wood chip bioreactors on farms to reduce nitrates in runoff water, says Michelle Soupir, a water quality engineer at Iowa State University in Ames.

But, despite his efforts, the ground won't soak up enough water to meet his self - appointed goal of restraining runoff from a 100 - year flood.

-- John Eckerle, Jupiter, FL Motor oil leaked from individual vehicles — or outright dumped by homeowners and commercial garages — constitutes a significant chunk of storm water runoff, the fallen precipitation that runs off of roads and parking lots and inevitably finds its way into local water bodies.

Rain water is shunted into storm drains, pushing the contaminated sediment downstream and delivering a fresh load of toxic runoff and snowmelt from city streets to Little Black Creek.

While water utilities across the country spend more than $ 50 billion a year to treat drinking water, the nation spends $ 207 million a year to protect source waters and prevent pollution from sources such as urban runoff, the study says.

However, the researchers did find a threefold higher risk of exposure for otters living near the mouths of rivers and streams, suggesting that storm - water runoff from fields and lawns frequented by cats could be a source of oocysts.

Silt - bearing runoff from many activities including construction sites, forestry and farms can inhibit the penetration of sunlight through the water column restricting photosynthesis and causing blanketing of the lake or river bed which in turns damages the ecology.

As a result, rainwater bounces off and collects as runoff, picking up impurities — including infectious bacteria from animal waste as well as harmful pesticides and fertilizers — on the way to municipal storm sewers, which in turn eventually empty out into local bodies of water.

The hardening prevents water from soaking into the soil, promoting flash floods and polluted runoff.

Metals have long been known to concentrate in sewage, which mixes toilet water with effluent from industrial manufacturing, storm runoff, and anything else flushed down the drain.

«It's very cool, because water can go underground, it can move around the ocean, it can change from ice to liquid and runoff, but it can't hide its mass from us,» says Watkins.

«I was surprised to see the toxic emissions data from coal mines, the information about mine runoff, and the long - term emissions to soil and water from coal mines.»

In California 42 percent of the water comes from the Sacramento and San Joaquin river basins, which are fed by runoff from the Sierra Nevada and other mountain ranges.

Their work, published yesterday in the journal Science, suggests that the plummeting snowpack could have serious consequences for more than 70 million people who depend on water from the runoff - fed Columbia, Colorado and Missouri rivers.

Agricultural runoff enriches the water further, as do the organic contributions from urban effluent, including that from Chicago's sewage system.

A new study led by researchers at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science reveals that land use in the watersheds from which this «dissolved organic matter» originates has important implications for Bay water quality, with the organic carbon in runoff from urbanized or heavily farmed landscapes more likely to persist as it is carried downstream, thus contributing energy to fuel low - oxygen «dead zones» in coastal waters.

There were three possible sources of the chloride: ferric chloride used to remove particles from water, chloride that was in the river naturally and road salt that accumulated after winter runoff.

Over two years of field experiments in the south west the team demonstrated that the hybrid, named Festulolium, reduced water runoff from agricultural grassland by up to 51 per cent compared to a leading UK nationally - recommended perennial ryegrass cultivar and by 43 per cent compared to meadow fescue.

The city has committed $ 1.5 billion to erecting green infrastructure — green roofs, street and sidewalk plantings, porous pavements, cisterns, rain barrels — that will control and absorb storm water and prevent polluted runoff from flowing into waterways by capturing it and filtering it naturally through the soil.

The scientists estimated that the amount of contaminated water flowing into the ocean from this brackish groundwater source below the sandy beaches is as large as the input from two other known sources: ongoing releases and runoff from the nuclear power plant site itself, and outflow from rivers that continue to carry cesium from the fallout on land in 2011 to the ocean on river - borne particles.

Washington, which produces farmed oysters, clams and mussels, is particularly vulnerable to acidification, for two reasons: seasonal, wind - driven upwelling events bring low - pH waters from the deep ocean towards the shore, and land - based nutrient runoff from farming fuels algal growth, which also lowers pH.

The setup is part of an experiment aimed at testing an unusual water pollution control scheme that uses gypsum, a waste product from coal - fired power plants, to reduce nutrient runoff from farms.

Warmer water coupled with the increased nutrients from permafrost and soil runoff could bolster aquatic life.

Pollution of the ocean by runoff from the land and the fouling of the air with carbon dioxide (which is warming the ocean and acidifying it) are accelerating and expanding the threats to the world's coastal waters.

«A sort of grand problem in Earth science is to understand the water cycle — evaporation from the ocean, clouds, rain, the formation of ice, the runoff from the land back into the sea,» said Eric Lindstrom, Aquarius program scientist at NASA.

To distinguish between water quality impacts from groundwater and stormwater runoff from the St. Lucie Estuary versus other impacts directly related to periodic discharges from Lake Okeechobee, Lapointe and his collaborators conducted a comprehensive analysis of the interactions of septic systems, groundwater, and surface waters.

Each year, a huge amount of water evaporates from the ocean, then falls over land as rain or snow, and returns to the ocean through runoff and river flows.

The study examined what is likely to be seen in terms of precipitation, snowpack accumulation and water runoff over the next century, versus the same data for the years from 1976 and 2005.

On the other hand, a shallow rain garden will need a lot of surface area to provide enough water storage to filtrate runoff from larger storms.

Location, location, location — Pick a site for your garden where runoff from your driveway or roof gutters can be diverted into it or that tends to collect water.