Sentence examples for amount of silt from inspiring English sources

A study by the commission also questioned the dam's long-term effectiveness because of the large amount of silt in the river.

The two most important considerations are the amount of silt carried and the kind and amount of salts dissolved in the water.

"Those are two lines that have had not just water but an enormous amount of silt," Mr. Lhota said in a telephone interview.

They were luckier; no oil escaped.The trouble goes way back there have been over 30 groundings in the past 30 years and is put down, bad weather apart, to the growing amount of silt and debris.

Shale could also contain different amount of silt size particles which are up to 62.5 microns.

For same relative density, volumetric strain also increased with the amount of silt content in sand silt mixture.

In a telephone news conference, Mr. Salazar said the releases would be timed for when storms or snowmelt have carried large amounts of silt just downriver from the dam.

Detective Mark Coleman, of the Monroe County Sheriff's Office, said rescue divers found large amounts of silt inside the ship, which would have made it difficult for the men to find their way out.

The erosional forces of the sea and wind along the coast continuously mould the landscape, together with the huge amounts of silt and other sediments, deposited in the countless estuaries, visible in the water.

Mr. Chellaney said that Beijing had also failed to take into account the huge amounts of silt retained by dams that invariably deprive downstream farmers of the seasonal nutrients that have traditionally replenished overworked soil.

The report says the area studied, about 100 miles east of Atlantic City, is particularly waterlogged, and thus particularly unstable, because the deep layers of the shelf were formed in the last Ice Age, when the Hudson River was a turbid torrent, laying down enormous amounts of silt that trapped water as successive layers accumulated.