Sentence examples for a impoundment from inspiring English sources

This flooded 1.5 mile and 44 acre of the original course of the creek, creating a impoundment.

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.

Once a judge orders an impoundment, the state police take possession of ballots from the county clerk.

For the Dam Condition ten option are available (Casagli and Ermini, 1999): Partial blockage: if the obstruction of the riverbed caused by the landslide is not complete (Type I of the Costa and Schuster (1988) classification) without the formation of an impoundment and a dam, but with the reduction of riverbed section.

Just before we arrived, a Fish and Wildlife conservationist found a flock of endangered wood storks nearby, and he led us down a dirt road about a 15-minute walk to an impoundment (as the fields are called).

The modification of downstream river flow characteristics (regime) by an impoundment can have a variety of negative effects upon fish species: loss of stimuli for migration, loss of migration routes and spawning grounds, decreased survival of eggs and juveniles, diminished food production.

The decision, which overturns a lower court, strikes at an impoundment policy started by the Giuliani administration.

When coal is washed in a processing plant, they pump the wastewater up a hill to what they call an impoundment pond.

By assuming an LNG pool fire occurring in an impoundment area, dynamic simulations of flame development have been carried out.

I can't help but imagine a fleet of government tow trucks "pulling back" a bunch of brand-new BMWs to an impoundment lot.

Sheriff's detective Edward Bachman testified that DNA on the steering wheel and gearshift of the family car, which turned up in an impoundment lot near the U.S.-Mexican border, was a match for Merritt, who authorities said denied ever driving the car.