Sentence examples for Make impoundments from inspiring English sources

To farm during the dry seasons, farmers sometimes make impoundments across streams or divert channel waters to reservoirs constructed close to the channel, to water crops like vegetables and cereals.

He sponsored legislation, which became law in 1995, making long impoundments the standard penalty for unauthorized driving.

To resolve the issue and reinstate congressional primacy on budgetary measures, Democrats drafted an impoundment control bill, which would make it unmistakably clear that the president was required to spend every dollar appropriated by Congress exactly for its stated purpose.

In that same light, after years of ignoring pleas from besieged residents on failed mining regulations, will President Obama and members of his administration finally make their first historic visit to a coal slurry impoundment and a mountaintop removal operation, and recognize a spiraling health disaster that has resulted in documented high rates of birth defects, lung cancer and heart problems?

In the absence of federal regulation, many of the pits or landfills where it is disposed were unlined, uncapped, or both, allowing that water to infiltrates the impoundments, and making it easy for contaminants to travel to surrounding communities through groundwater and air.

Mr. Paterson said the withheld funds were not "a cut" or an "impoundment" — perhaps drawing a legal distinction because only the Legislature is empowered to make permanent budget cuts.

Data pertaining to tailings production, cyclone operation time, impoundment height, and impoundment volume were made available for a full-scale copper mine TSF.

On a recent December day, a ridge near the lake was bracingly quiet, save for rumbles of construction trucks making preparations to expand the impoundment.

In doing so he made extensive use of something called impoundment, which basically acted like a line item veto.

The experimental setup was designed to simulate (1) the internal erosion process and piping development in relation to the nature of the material forming the impoundment; (2) the failure mechanisms of landslide dams made of materials of varying geotechnical properties; and (3) the rate of development of piping.

(ii) If the owner is unknown, disposal of the livestock shall not be made until at least fifteen (15) days have elapsed from the date that a notice of impoundment is originally published in a newspaper of general circulation in the county in which the trespass occurs or, if no such newspaper exists, notification is provided by other appropriate means.