Sentences with phrase «storm water flows»

The report discussed many climate change issues that are applicable to the rest of the country, including extreme storm events, wildfires, flooding, storm water flows and summer water shortages.

This is also unnecessary since the tidal Thames effectively complies with the EU Directives on water quality and there are options, proven in several US cities and on the continent, not only to reduce the occasional storm water flows into the Thames, enough to collect perhaps 5 % sewage on the way, but also retain rain water for other greener uses.

City officials have asked the Park District to conduct a storm water management analysis this month to determine the storm water flow into the Ashbury subdivision.

Not exact matches

But existing models of water flows don't provide the full range of possible outcomes: «A 50 - year rain can produce a 100 - year flood if it falls on a watershed that's already soaked or on snowpack or if it coincides with a storm surge.»

In the wake of the swim party, Judith Enck, Environmental Protection Agency regional director, points out portions of the lake are still a Superfund site, and there are areas where storm water and untreated sewage flow into the lake, making it dangerous for swimmers.

«They do have sanitary sewers that are not combined, but when you look at the flow on a regular day, the number of gallons that go through a pump station and then compare it to what happens after a rain storm, they have eight times the water going through,» Mahoney said.

After the Bay Park Sewage Treatment Plant flooded with nine feet of water, two pipes ruptured under the storm pressure, sending raw sewage flowing into homes in Baldwin and East Rockaway.

A pulse flow is a surge of water that periodically flows through a river — normally as the result of natural events such as spring storms or melting snow.

This decreases natural storm runoff during high - flow winter months while contributing proportionately more water to streamflows during the drier months that make up about 80 percent of the region's calendar year.

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 levees also impeded the flow of water — and sediments — over wetlands during storm tides.

The trade winds then weaken, allowing warmer water to flow eastwards across the Pacific, dragging with it tropical storms.

It runs potential storm tracks through sophisticated computer models to determine the way water might flow over the landscape when a hurricane hits and produces maps that are color - coded for various danger levels.

The turbine operates in the middle layer of the current, 100 m below the surface, where the waters flow calmly and steadily, even during strong storms.

This is because the counterclockwise flow of hurricanes swept water ashore east of the storm's center.

Unlike the water captured inside your home, which flows to the sewer and into waste treatment facilities, rain travels through storm drains to creeks, rivers, and eventually to the ocean.

A channel, 40 feet wide, flowed between the rocks, and the water stormed through this opening as if it were racing down a chute.

The house is near new and flows over three levels with two bedrooms on the second level and a third on the top level along with a spacious kitchen featuring a large oven and gas cook top, fridge with water cooler and ice maker, dishwasher and room to cook up a storm!

The problem that triggered the issue is that many residences and business are not connected to the sewer system, but instead to the storm drainage that flows into the ocean, polluting the waters of Bulabog Beach (not famous White Beach).

Poetically depicting the transformative nature of water, Robinson captures storm surges and calm reflective moments as well as the formation of ice and flowing currents.

With notable features like heat - reflecting roof and windows, low - flow faucets and waterless urinals, self - dimming lights, and storm water filtration, Boston Logan Airport's new Terminal A has become the first airport to be LEED certified.

As I read reports about the release of more than 11,000 tons of radiation - laced water into the sea from the damaged nuclear plant in Japan, I recalled reporting I did more than a decade ago on the many uses of silt barriers — essentially curtains suspended in water — to hold back everything from oil slicks to the bursts of polluted runoff flowing into coastal waters from city storm drains after heavy storms (the water can be pumped and treated once the system is not overloaded).

As his office announced plans Tuesday of the beach tour, Assemblyman John McKeon (D - Essex) criticized Christie for his veto of legislation to control pollution flowing into Barnegat Bay via storm water runoff and for his pulling the state out of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative.

The main problems as I understand it relates to water overdraft and lax land use policy that is allowing land to subside and less flow from the rivers that allows salt to encroach farther inland and building in areas that are prone to storm surge.

Along with a porous paving system and a network of natural swales, the living roof will retain storm water, allowing it to percolate slowly through the soil rather than flow swiftly from impervious surfaces into the nearby river.

Trenberth notes that global warming has already increased the average amount of water vapor in the atmosphere by about 4 %, «extra moisture flowing into the storms that produced the heavy rains and likely contributed to the strength of the storms through added energy.»

So all those hurricanes, typhoons, summer storms, winter snow all that precipitation fell on land and didn't go into rivers that flow to the seas and all those hurricanes we tracked over oceans didn't drop any water on the oceans??? What schools did these scientists go to?

Similarly, the State Water Resource Control Board's Storm Water Program wants us to approach urban landscapes like natural watersheds that slow the flow of water and allow it to be absorbed into the grWater Resource Control Board's Storm Water Program wants us to approach urban landscapes like natural watersheds that slow the flow of water and allow it to be absorbed into the grWater Program wants us to approach urban landscapes like natural watersheds that slow the flow of water and allow it to be absorbed into the grwater and allow it to be absorbed into the ground.

Nearshore benthic communities also could undergo significant change induced by reduced ice cover, longer open - water season, changing flows through the Bering Strait, increased frequency and intensity of storms, increased river and freshwater runoff, and increased ice scouring and coastal erosion.

Not only do the economic climate models need to predict policy shifts, population growth, and the pace and type of climate changes to come — more droughts, more severe storms, higher temperatures in some places and lower in others, etc. — but they also try to quantify things such as agricultural and forestry losses, damage from catastrophic storms, utility costs, savings from efficiency improvements, water shortages, and sometimes even the economic consequences of refugee flows.

A heavy rainstorm and spring run - off can easily carries dog waste into streams and rivers, and any waste that ends up in storm sewers usually flows directly into a body of water without being treated.

In the past, the peak flow through Wingham's storm water system and sewage treatment plant has exceeded capacity during major storms.

Municipalities and conservation authorities have a wealth of resources about what happens to surface water within a watershed and an understanding of where the storm water systems are subject to overflow and back flow.

Some situations that occur in flood - prone areas include: 1) the diameter of the sewer pipe is not sufficient to hold all of the water flow during a heavy storm event; 2) the gradient of the sewer pipe is not steep enough to allow water flow at the same rate as the rain; and 3) heavily paved areas do not allow water to absorb into the ground, forcing more water into sewers.