Sentence examples for amount of stormwater from inspiring English sources

"Excavation would come within 30 feet of that and would destroy the buffer zone to the forest and create a tremendous amount of stormwater run-off".

By capturing a significant amount of stormwater and allowing it to seep into the ground, the pervious concrete is instrumental in recharging groundwater and reducing stormwater runoff.

Urbanization has caused massive increases in impervious coverages and as a result the amount of stormwater runoff, which in turn can have harmful effects on urban and suburban streams.

Second, adapting a green roof can not only effectually decrease the amount of stormwater runoff, but also mitigate the heat island effect, extend roof life, and improve thermal and sound insulation performance.

Urban forests are capable of reducing the amount of stormwater runoff, in part, by regulating throughfall via canopy rainfall interception; however, the lack of stand-scale studies of urban throughfall hinders realistic estimates of the benefits of urban vegetation for stormwater regulation.

After evaluating average Colorado climate conditions using a stormwater management model, CSU researchers found that residents' use of rain barrels -- at least at an adoption rate typical of other states that allow them -- would not have a discernible impact on the amount of downstream stormwater runoff.

Since stormwater wash-off of pollutants in urban areas is largely affected by environmental variability, it is very difficult to predict the amount of pollutants transported by stormwater runoff during and after individual rainfall events.

PAH contamination can be reduced in future urban landscape planning and design by minimizing the amount of impervious surface around stormwater retention ponds, even if they are linked along a hydrologic gradient.

Numbers of greenroofs in urban areas continue to grow internationally; so designing greenroof soil to reduce the amount of nutrients in the stormwater runoff from these roofs is becoming essential.

Results show that the expansion of bare land and impervious cover, soil alteration, and high amount of precipitation influenced the stormwater runoff variability during different phases of land development.

To consider the worst scenario of stormwater quantity control in Dhaka City, we also estimated stormwater volume assuming the declining limb of hydrograph is three times longer than the rising one.