Sentences with phrase «water runoff from»

Lawns help reduce water runoff from rain and absorb summer heat, as well as providing a soft play area for kids.

rooflite soil systems also mimic natural soil profiles to support healthy root environments and vigorous plant growth, an essential part of minimizing and delaying any water runoff from the roof.

This is part way into a question I asked at RC... QUESTION: Do these experiments take into account any heat added to the water by underwater volcanic activity or fumeroles or even fresh water runoff from rain?

Finally, if the North American hydrologic cycle is enhanced, and / or Greenland's southern ice caps melt, the increased fresh water runoff from land areas could dilute the ocean surface water and critically reduce its salinity.

Commonly found in — Air and water runoff from chemical processing plants and ore - smelting plants, cigarette smoke, groundwater, fungicides / pesticides / herbicides, meat and seafood, preservatives, electronic waste, rice — especially brown rice and brown rice syrup.

Melt water runoff from a melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet is a potentially major source of freshening not yet included in the models found in the MMD (see Section 8.7.2.2).

The team also compared the ice loss up until the mid-1980s to that observed by satellites over roughly the last decade and found that today the rate of ice loss is twice the 20th century average, mostly because of increased water runoff from the ice sheet's surface.

Also, raw sewage may reach coastal waters when water runoff from big storms causes sewage treatment plants to bypass treatment.

The most common wells, called Class 5, are a sort of catch - all for everything left over from the other categories, including storm - water runoff from gas stations.

Over two years of field experiments in the south west the team demonstrated that the hybrid, named Festulolium, reduced water runoff from agricultural grassland by up to 51 per cent compared to a leading UK nationally - recommended perennial ryegrass cultivar and by 43 per cent compared to meadow fescue.

However, the researchers did find a threefold higher risk of exposure for otters living near the mouths of rivers and streams, suggesting that storm - water runoff from fields and lawns frequented by cats could be a source of oocysts.

What's interesting is that the sugar problem which is a real one allows you not to pay any attention as storm water runoff from suburban development.

At 4 p.m., Sen. Tony Avella and residents call on the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to be transparent and take responsibility for the flooding caused by water runoff from the leaking Whitestone bridge, Whitestone Expressway and Fifth Avenue, Queens.

The agreement to buy Toohey Park permits a certain amount of water runoff from the Sunny Ridge site to flow into a pond at the park, but parks officials said they want to ensure that the project doesn't send too much water into the park.

Not exact matches

To catch the runoff from the melted snow, residents had wisely built a damn, but it was inefficient, providing water for only a few dozen families, and stirring up strife between neighbors desperate for its live - saving waters.

We filled our hands with cold running water from glacial runoff, drinking deeply.

Climate - smart agriculture promotes a number of water conservation practices, such as planting a buffer of trees and bushes along streams and rivers to prevent erosion and contamination from crop runoff.

Somewhere, perhaps at a truck stop along Interstate 80, just south of a fruit stand on the Yolo Causeway or maybe in the middle of a field watered by runoff from the Delta, sits a line.

Overflowing sewers, runoff from chemical plants and seepage from toxic waste sites have created a hazardous stew in the waters covering much of the nation's fourth largest city, and officials are just beginning to grapple with the health problems looming.

The Thompson campaign has pointed out throughout the city comptroller's run for mayor that he has worked hard on environmental efforts, including attempting to stop natural gas drilling within or near the city's upstate watershed, which provides drinking water to the city's residents; calling for the preservation of wildlife space in the Ridgewood Reservoir; and issuing a report documenting the impact of airport congestion at the city's three major airports; and the rise in airport runoff, especially the flow from Kennedy Airport into marshes in Jamaica Bay.

Picente has asked the Oneida County Board of Legislators to commit $ 500,000 to address the public works projects within the municipalities that were severely impacted by the storm water runoff or flooding from their waterways or bodies of water.

Runoff of phosphorus from sources like lawn fertilizer can end up contributing to algae blooms in water sources — accelerated growth that can make lakes and ponds hostile to marine life and treacherous for swimmers and other recreational users.

Three main water quality issues were cited by Mr. Cuomo during his 20 - minute speech: an underground plume left by Northrup Grumman in Nassau county that measures one - by - three miles wide, runoff from mulching facilities on Long Island (of which there are 65) and saltwater intrusion.

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Water contamination from industrial sites and inadequate treatment facilities, agricultural and storm water runoff, aging pipes and other structural problems are among the problems that must be addressed to ensure New York has clean and lead - free drinking water, DiNapoli Water contamination from industrial sites and inadequate treatment facilities, agricultural and storm water runoff, aging pipes and other structural problems are among the problems that must be addressed to ensure New York has clean and lead - free drinking water, DiNapoli water runoff, aging pipes and other structural problems are among the problems that must be addressed to ensure New York has clean and lead - free drinking water, DiNapoli water, DiNapoli said.

AbTech is a small Arizona company that sells sponge - like filters that remove pollutants from water and can be used in sewers and on stormwater runoff.

Combined, these two adjustments would keep runoff water from overwhelming the city's aged sewer system, which today leads to raw waste being flushed into the river during storms.

An analysis of water and climate data from 1901 to 2008 from 100 large water basins around the world revealed more water loss to the atmosphere and less water runoff compared with conclusions from earlier studies.

Steve: When nutrients, it's usually phosphates, get into the waters of the Everglades, it really just disrupts the whole system — these are runoffs from mostly the sugar plantations, right?

The water that lies in its bed there is but a shallow, narrow swamp of salt and pesticide - laced runoff from crop irrigation.

That's why it's important to prevent contaminants from getting into the source water in the first place, for instance by installing wood chip bioreactors on farms to reduce nitrates in runoff water, says Michelle Soupir, a water quality engineer at Iowa State University in Ames.

But, despite his efforts, the ground won't soak up enough water to meet his self - appointed goal of restraining runoff from a 100 - year flood.

-- 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.

Rain water is shunted into storm drains, pushing the contaminated sediment downstream and delivering a fresh load of toxic runoff and snowmelt from city streets to Little Black Creek.

While water utilities across the country spend more than $ 50 billion a year to treat drinking water, the nation spends $ 207 million a year to protect source waters and prevent pollution from sources such as urban runoff, the study says.

Silt - bearing runoff from many activities including construction sites, forestry and farms can inhibit the penetration of sunlight through the water column restricting photosynthesis and causing blanketing of the lake or river bed which in turns damages the ecology.

As a result, rainwater bounces off and collects as runoff, picking up impurities — including infectious bacteria from animal waste as well as harmful pesticides and fertilizers — on the way to municipal storm sewers, which in turn eventually empty out into local bodies of water.

The hardening prevents water from soaking into the soil, promoting flash floods and polluted runoff.

Metals have long been known to concentrate in sewage, which mixes toilet water with effluent from industrial manufacturing, storm runoff, and anything else flushed down the drain.

«It's very cool, because water can go underground, it can move around the ocean, it can change from ice to liquid and runoff, but it can't hide its mass from us,» says Watkins.

«I was surprised to see the toxic emissions data from coal mines, the information about mine runoff, and the long - term emissions to soil and water from coal mines.»

In California 42 percent of the water comes from the Sacramento and San Joaquin river basins, which are fed by runoff from the Sierra Nevada and other mountain ranges.

Their work, published yesterday in the journal Science, suggests that the plummeting snowpack could have serious consequences for more than 70 million people who depend on water from the runoff - fed Columbia, Colorado and Missouri rivers.

Agricultural runoff enriches the water further, as do the organic contributions from urban effluent, including that from Chicago's sewage system.

A new study led by researchers at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science reveals that land use in the watersheds from which this «dissolved organic matter» originates has important implications for Bay water quality, with the organic carbon in runoff from urbanized or heavily farmed landscapes more likely to persist as it is carried downstream, thus contributing energy to fuel low - oxygen «dead zones» in coastal waters.

There were three possible sources of the chloride: ferric chloride used to remove particles from water, chloride that was in the river naturally and road salt that accumulated after winter runoff.

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 scientists estimated that the amount of contaminated water flowing into the ocean from this brackish groundwater source below the sandy beaches is as large as the input from two other known sources: ongoing releases and runoff from the nuclear power plant site itself, and outflow from rivers that continue to carry cesium from the fallout on land in 2011 to the ocean on river - borne particles.

Washington, which produces farmed oysters, clams and mussels, is particularly vulnerable to acidification, for two reasons: seasonal, wind - driven upwelling events bring low - pH waters from the deep ocean towards the shore, and land - based nutrient runoff from farming fuels algal growth, which also lowers pH.

The setup is part of an experiment aimed at testing an unusual water pollution control scheme that uses gypsum, a waste product from coal - fired power plants, to reduce nutrient runoff from farms.