Sentences with phrase «water runoff in»

Hotter city roads and pavements also raise the temperature of storm - water runoff in sewers.

Managing storm - water runoff in urban settings is critical to keep basements dry, streets clear and passable, and streams and rivers healthy, but how much are homeowners willing to pay for it?

Not exact matches

MillerCoors» water - saving effort — focused in Texas, California and Colorado — involves using sensors to release just enough water for irrigation, planting native grass to reduce erosion and runoff and keeping a close eye on leaky machinery in its breweries.

In addition, water collection systems channel rain and irrigation runoff water back into the ground.

Last December, Toronto - based Centerra Gold Inc. shut down the mill at its Mount Milligan mine in British Columbia after anemic snowmelt runoff and an unexpected extreme cold snap froze the shallow supply of water in its tailing ponds.

«Better knowledge will also provide an understanding how pressures such as invasive species, polluted runoff and reduced vegetation cover affect the ongoing health of water - dependent ecosystems in the Basin.

The Complete Fly Fisherman is best savored in small bites, especially on early spring days when wind and winter runoff conspire to keep you off the water — where by all rights you should be — and in the library.

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.

On March 23, Broadmoor Wildlife Sanctuary in Natick will host a CRWA - led training on Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System permits and effective strategies for reducing storm water runoff pollution.

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.

Manure runoff has been cited as a problem affecting Owasco Lake, which provides drinking water to nearly 50,000 residents in the Auburn area.

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.

Rain barrels reduce stormwater runoff, water produced in heavy rainfalls that does not soak in to the ground and can transport pollutants to our local waterways.

Sean Ryan [email protected] Regulators have a stern message for contractors: If you ignore runoff and storm - water rules, we'll see you in court.

Gov. Cuomo wants the state to invest a record $ 2 billion in water infrastructure projects across New York, including helping to pay for new wastewater systems on Long Island that would reduce nitrogen runoff.

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.

They are used in trainings, and another study found the runoff can end up in the water supply.

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.

The same spokesperson said that Gov. Andrew Cuomo's Water Quality Task Force is coordinating a multi-agency response to address nutrient runoff in Owasco Lake.

It's the next phase in the $ 87 million consent decree, a water and sewer separation project that is mandated by the state and federal governments to prevent future sewage runoff into Lake Ontario.

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.

They also reduce storm water runoff, which is a huge issue in cities.

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Greenland's ice streams drain the ice sheet via meltwater runoff much in the same way that water basins drain rivers, explained Bevis.

This extra runoff is why waters in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, for example, rose to a record 30 - plus feet (over nine meters).

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.

The location is on track toward a target to reduce storm water runoff by 75 percent in summer and 40 percent in winter, he added.

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.

You can wash off the contamination with soap and water — the traditional method — but that creates sizable reservoirs of radioactive runoff, which in turn has to be trapped, treated, and stored away for centuries.

However, temperatures during the «runoff season» of March - July can have a significant impact on the amount of water that ends up in the river, the researchers found.

Growing crops in city skyscrapers would use less water and fossil fuel than outdoor farming, eliminate agricultural runoff, and provide fresh food

The long - term drinking - water issues for cities in the area could be alleviated by a proposal for a regional drinking water reservoir that captures storm runoff currently lost, Jurado said.

Otherwise, storm runoff gets contaminated with benzene and other harmful chemicals and can infiltrate into adjacent soil patches or form stormwater that may end up in natural bodies of water.»

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.

And Citigroup Inc. announced in October that it would draw down loans for companies that engage in mountaintop - removal mining — a process in which workers detonate rocks and soil to access coal trapped below, often leaving toxic runoff in bodies of water nearby.

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.

According to Dohm, this is a likely indication that the elements were leached out of the soil by runoff water and concentrated in sediment on the muddy floor of a standing ocean.

Researchers found that farmed oysters could remove significant amounts of nitrogen in the waters of the Chesapeake delivered there by agricultural and municipal runoff.

Brown researchers have compiled a detailed Indonesian climate record of the last 60,000 years, tracking telltale indicators in sedimentary cores: titanium levels (a marker for surface water runoff) and the carbon isotopes of leaf wax, a marker for plant varieties (grasses indicate dry conditions).

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.

«However, the greatest reduction in nitrogen leaching occurs when bioenergy crops displace other cropland or grassland, because energy crops consume more water and less nitrogen fertilizer than the crops and grasses that they replace, resulting in less water runoff and nitrogen loss.»

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.

Nutrient runoff may well be creating dead zones in coastal waters, but we can't just stop fertilizing our fields; global warming is a serious threat to coral reefs, but we can't just stop emitting greenhouse gases, and at this point it would probably be too late.

Actions to reduce stormwater runoff in ways that allow water to infiltrate and move more slowly through the ground can also ease flooding and peak flows that otherwise threaten salmon redds.

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.

While TF levels have been measured in some food crops, in agricultural runoff, and in ground water, TF levels have not been measured in humans.

In recent years, some growers already have dramatically reduced the amount of water and synthetic fertilizer they use by practicing precision farming techniques, such as drip irrigation, which reduces the overall amount of water used and therefore nitrate runoff.