Sentences with phrase «storm water run»

Retention ponds for storm water run - off, again often tied to subdivision size.

School grounds have become healthier outdoor places by reducing paved areas and replacing them with grass which also reduces storm water run - off and sedimentation (source = State of our Schools 2016)

This will minimize storm water run - off and create a more pleasant view from the roof top terrace up above.

Storm water run - off will be reduced by filtering through the soil, fueling the plants, and evaporating.

Constructed wetlands are artificial filtration wetlands, which provide critical animal and plant habitat as well as mitigate impacts of waste water and storm water run - off.

Not incidentally, City Hall's green roof absorbs storm water run - off and insulates the building from the hot sun, provides relief from the urban heat island effect.

A little bit of research revealed that the county extension office had also been promoting these gardens as a way to prevent storm water run - off.

In many communities in New York, storm water runs into the same system as sewage.

Not exact matches

The storm quickly gave way to a humanitarian crisis, with many of Puerto Rico's residents struggling to access food, water, and fuel to run generators and cars.

Yes, when late autumn comes, even the flower can speak the wisdom of the years and say with truthfulness, «All has its time, there is «a time to be born and a time to die»; there is a time to jest lightheartedly in the spring breeze, and a time to break under the autumn storm; there is a time to burst forth into blossom, beside the running water, beloved by the stream, and a time to wither and be forgotten; a time to be sought out for one's beauty, and a time to be unnoticed in one's wretchedness; there is a time to be nursed with care, and a time to be cast out with contempt; there is a time to delight in the warmth of the morning sun and a time to perish in the night's cold.

As ancient man surveyed his world, he found himself surrounded on all sides with movement and change, not only in fellow - humans, animals and birds, but in running water, scudding clouds, heavenly bodies traveling across the sky, rising dust - storms, the occasionally quaking earth and the vegetation which sprang up, flowered, fruited and died.

But from the distance of my home in Eugene, Ore., it seemed inconceivable that a 26 - mile race could be run through the city just six days after the storm, with fires having leveled blocks in Queens, with neighborhoods in Brooklyn under eight feet of water, with the subways and the airports flooded and 40,000 left homeless.

He added that the size of the storm - water retention pond behind Neuqua Valley High School would be adequate for run - off from the new park.

Nassau's sewer and storm - water district saved no money during the first year the county's sewer system was run by a private company, according to the county's Office of Legislative Budget Review.

The storm ravaged the US territory last month, leaving much of it without electricity and running water.

-- 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.

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.

They run into a storm above the desert, and crash miles away from any people or water.

A week after Hurricane Maria, the strongest storm to hit Puerto Rico in decades, there's less immediate concern about when schools will reopen and more about when children and families will have access to food, running water, and power.

As the storm surged and the ocean waves tossed and churned, spilling raging water and debris farther and farther up the beach, Momma and Poppa grabbed hold of fish and held on tight, while the rest of us ran for cover.

Photographer Julie Patrick, Associate Member since 2002, blurs the viewer's understanding of text in her submission, Hurricane Neon, featuring a color palate run wet as the viewer sees through a water streaked window to the neon signs nearby during a heavy storm.

On the question of hurricanes, the theoretical arguments that more energy and water vapor in the atmosphere should lead to stronger storms are really sound (after all, storm intensity increases going from pole toward equator), but determining precisely how human influences (so including GHGs [greenhouse gases] and aerosols, and land cover change) should be changing hurricanes in a system where there are natural external (solar and volcanoes) and internal (e.g., ENSO, NAO [El Nino - Southern Oscillation, North Atlantic Oscillation]-RRB- influences is quite problematic — our climate models are just not good enough yet to carry out the types of sensitivity tests that have been done using limited area hurricane models run for relatively short times.

Abutting the roof deck is a lush, living green roof built to fill the view with green vegetation at eye level while seated, and reduce roof run - off from storm water.

Sometimes the storm runs into cold water and other times it makes the cold water itself by not moving much and churning it up from the depths.

When the water cools, the storm runs out of gas.

Nitrates are commonly found in groundwater, ending up there after they're used for fertilizing crops or from storm - water run - off.

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.

The site will reduce stormwater run - off into the combined storm sewer by 67 percent through the use of bio-swales (also known as rain gardens) which allow storm water to infiltrate back into the ground where, through phytoremediation, the plants contribute to the filtration of the water.

These warm ocean waters contributed to severe floods over the Ohio River Valley at that time by pumping record levels of atmospheric moisture into the storms running south.

Though polar amplification — which is another term for how global warming spurs the poles to heat up faster than the rest of the world — helped to generate the upper level features in the atmosphere that would consistently generate storms running across the U.S. East Coast, widespread warmer than normal ocean waters helped to give these storms more fuel.

The adjuster determined that the fact that we were in the worst natural disater in our state's history (ice Storm) and our home was without power, heat, water and I had to run a generator to protect our food etc., that this fact did not make my home «uninhabitable» as defined in the policy.

Visalia renters insurance is the beacon in the storm, the lighthouse on the rocks that helps you when you run into stormy waters.

Because the watch is water resistant I even took it in the shower with me, and ran through a rain storm, and I sweated.

Remove hard surfaces in your landscape to allow water to percolate into the soil and not run off in storm gutters.