Sentences with phrase «water erosion control»

Not exact matches

The «Coffee Growing — Environmental Leadership» section covers water body protection, including criteria for width and type of vegetated buffer zones along permanent and seasonal water bodies, and use of chemicals or waste storage near water bodies; protection of soil resources, including measures to control and prevent erosion and use of organic mulches and cover crops; conserving biodiversity, including maintaining a shade canopy, protecting wildlife, and establishment of conservation areas; and environmental management, including pest and disease control.

The introduction of trees to form agroforestry systems provided sources of firewood, timber, fruits and shade, but also helped in erosion control, protecting water courses through the stabilization of the soil and as wind breaks, regulating the velocity of the winds.

Ecosystems provide the most basic provisioning services — food, firewood, and medicines — along with the so - called regulating services of a fully functional environment, which include cleaning the air, purifying water, controlling floods and erosion, storing carbon, and detoxifying pollutants in soils.

They protect the soil from wind and from water runoff, helping to control erosion.

ref A key strategy to address ocean acidification is reinforcing existing environmental laws (e.g., U.S. Clean Water Act) to: limit runoff and associated pollutants, control coastal erosion, and enforce emission limits for pollutants such as nitrogen oxide and sulfur oxide.

Regenerative farming practices that include composting, erosion control and water harvesting are the founding principle of the demo farm that is being set up by Commonland in the Los Veléz - Altiplano area of Spain.

Mangrove trees live in salt water along the Abu Dhabi coastline, providing important animal habitat and erosion control.

«Identifying the threads that connect these parasites from wild and domestic land animals to marine mammals helps us to see ways that those threads might be cut... by, for example, managing feral cat and opossum populations, reducing run - off from urban areas near the coast, monitoring water quality and controlling erosion to prevent parasites from entering the marine food chain.»

Promising soil management techniques include controlled grazing; mulching with organic matter; applying manure and biosolids; use of cover crops in the rotation cycle; agroforestry; contour farming; hedgerows; terracing; plastic mulch for erosion control; no - till or conservation tillage; retention of crop residue; appropriate use of water and irrigation; and integrated nutrient management, including the judicious use of chemical fertilizers.

Their products include decorative barks, premium orchid barks, standard and custom growing media blends, erosion control mulches, enriched soil and turf soil blends, IPEMA playground fiber and waste water filtration materials.

Here are just some of the many benefits that these systems provide all at once: green infrastructure absorbs and sequesters atmospheric carbon dioxide (C02); filters air and water pollutants; stabilizes soil to prevent or reduce erosion; provides wildlife habitat; decreases solar heat gain; lowers the public cost of stormwater management infrastructure and provides flood control; and reduces energy usage through passive heating and cooling.

Environmental benefits In addition to greenhouse gas mitigation or sequestration, many projects provide a range of additional ecosystem services that enhance biodiversity, preserve natural habitats, control erosion, reduce localized air and water pollution, and more.

For example, controlling erosion can lower sediment pollution and thereby reduce the costs of running a nearby water treatment plant.

They rely on natural resources (water, soil, plants) as well as on the services they provide (pollination, erosion control, and others).

Major Environmental Issues: Erosion resulting from inadequate flood controls and improper land use practices; irrigated soil degradation; desertification; air pollution in Buenos Aires and other major cities; water pollution in urban areas; rivers becoming polluted due to increased pesticide and fertilizer use.

«The disadvantages included environmental threats to the Peel, Hunter and Barnard water catchments, biodiversity, erosion, bushfire control, aviation, visual amenity, noise, property values and demand, social cohesion, existing population, tourism businesses, and jobs.»

At the same time, the reforestation of degraded land can improve biodiversity, enhance habitats for wildlife, improve air and water quality, provide soil filtration, control erosion, and prevent heat islands.

Efforts by Asian business and government to buy and control overseas farm land and water resources are different: it is the end game choice after overpopulation, water pollution, and soil erosion from poor land management have taken their toll.Export tariffs are not a sustainable solution, I'd agree.

Implemented project erosion control plan, monitored the erosion control devices and wrote storm water reports.

Lead team in application and design of storm water BMPs and review storm water BMPs and erosion control devices.

Knowledgeable in pre-construction permitting, wetland and water body delineation, erosion control and stormwater control measures.

I have completed OSHA safety training in; trenching, hoist and supports, and have presented many onsitsite safety meetings as a working grade foreman!My erosion control, ie silt fence, settament traps, and storm water management skills are equally strong.I can read site plans and keep dirt moving no matter import, export, or type of fill (controlled / soil tech's dirt procter...

She and other local master gardeners are using their skills to help homeowners develop rain gardens in places where erosion, water conservation and pollution control are concerns.