Sentences with phrase «snowmelt system»

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But when we experience heavy rains or snowmelts, the sanitary sewer system becomes overwhelmed with clean stormwater, which causes overflows into the Mohawk River.

Due to deficiencies in the sewer collection system and lack of treatment capacity, wet weather events such as rain or snowmelt generate more wastewater than the plant can handle.

But heavy rains or snowmelts can cause stormwater to overwhelm the system and result in overflows into the Mohawk River.

The timing of snowmelt also influenced the timing of peak discharge from the North Slope river system and the start of the vegetative growing season, according to the researchers.

«The timing of snowmelt and length of the snow - free season significantly impacts weather, the permafrost, and wildlife — in short, the Arctic terrestrial system as a whole,» said Christopher Cox, a scientist with CIRES at the University of Colorado Boulder and NOAA's Physical Sciences Division in Boulder, Colorado.

Record high temperatures in Pakistan's far north were already producing higher amounts of snowmelt and glacial meltwater runoff from the Karakoram Range and into the Indus River System.

«As we reach a tipping point and see our customary water storage system, the snowpack, melting more and earlier in the winter, systems that rely on snowmelt will need to be reevaluated and modified.»

Winter snows in the Chuska Mountains would have produced a significant amount of spring snowmelt that was combined with surface water features like natural «wash systems,» said Benson.

New York City's sewage systems are old and can't handle large amounts of snowmelt or stormwater.

Along its route, the river passes through an elaborate water - management system designed to tame the yearly floods from spring snowmelt and to provide a reliable supply of water for residents as far away as California.

Changed pattern and quantity of precipitation in concert with temperature extremes manifests itself in a number of catastrophic outcomes like drought, slides, snowmelts, floods, agricultural productivity loss, and upsurge in diseases which impact both the natural and the human systems [continue reading...]

The scientists looked not just at how temperatures would affect rainfall and snowmelt, but also at how California's water system — its rivers and dams and reservoirs and political systems — would handle drought.

California's water systems are built to hold snowmelt as it is slowly released from mountain snowpack.