Sentences with phrase «than storms river»

Other than Storms River Mouth, Knysna is the Garden Route's darling.

Not exact matches

Maria, however, blew out windows at some hospitals and police stations, turned some streets into roaring rivers and destroyed hundreds of homes across Puerto Rico, including 80 percent of houses in a small fishing community near the San Juan Bay, which unleashed a storm surge of more than 4 feet.

An Investigative Post analysis of state data shows the Niagara Falls sewer system has spewed more than a half - billion gallons of raw sewage mixed with storm water into the Lower Niagara River since May 2016.

Fertilisers and manures washed off in storms are a major source of nutrients, with more than 60 per cent of the nitrogen and 25 per cent of the phosphorus in our rivers coming from agriculture.

More than six years after Hurricane Katrina plowed into New Orleans and the Mississippi River delta, a plan has finally emerged to protect the area from future storms.

The eight - day storm dumped more than 17 inches of rain, causing the Platte River to reach flood levels higher than ever recorded.

A more glamorous town than other more low - key hamlets, like Nature's Valley and Storms River, Plettenberg Bay serves as a seaside playground for the more affluent, and as a post-matric party destination (you'll want to avoid town during the annual Plett Rage Student Festival in early December).

Established in 1960 as a way to showcase the majestic paintings from the Hudson River School movement, Storm King Art Center has evolved into one of today's leading sculpture parks, with more than 100 contemporary works dotting a dramatic landscape of pastoral hills, breathtaking vistas, and tranquil ponds.

Its clear that the struggle over Storm King played a powerful role in focusing attention on much more than the aesthetic character of the region; that the lasting legacy of this fight has been a sustained and long - lasting effort to clean up the Hudson River.

They include Scenic Hudson, the Hudson River Fisherman's Association (Riverkeeper), Clearwater, the short - lived Hudson River valley Commission, the Hudson River Foundation, and the Natural Resources Defense Council (It might surprise some to know that N.R.D.C. was founded by Scenic Hudson board members on the losing end of an internal struggle over an effort to push Scenic Hudson to focus on more than Storm King).

That «Atmospheric River 1000 Storm» (ARkStorm)-- could cause more than 300 % of the damage from a 7.8 magnitude San Andreas fault ShakeOut earthquake scenario (Perry, S., et al. 2008).

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.

[8] Rain - on - snow - producing atmospheric river storms are, on average, only 2 °C warmer than others storm types that preserve snow pack.