Sentence examples for amounts of runoff from inspiring English sources

There and at other units, workers have been cooling nuclear fuel at the reactor's core and in storage pools by pumping in hundreds of tons of water a day, producing dangerous amounts of runoff.

This is somewhat unexpected, since similar amounts of runoff were collected within about 1 month from the horizontally oriented test specimens compared to 15 months from the vertically exposed test specimens.

Inter-patches (mean ground cover = 23.5% ± 2.7% SE) had the least desirable hydrological and erosional responses, and produced the highest amounts of runoff and sediment, followed in decreasing order by medium vegetated patches (mean ground cover = 54.8% ± 3.1% SE) and well vegetated patches (mean ground cover = 77.3% ± 3.1% SE).

In all probability, this was first and foremost due to the comparatively small amounts of runoff and sediments produced by the untreated pine plots (5% and 0.32 Mg ha− 1) and, as such, due to the extensive needle cast following a low severity fire.

"So that enhances the amount of runoff that naturally comes off these slopes," he said.

"The same amount of runoff goes into Port Phillip Bay as we use in Melbourne each year," she says.

Surface slope, or gradient, determines the amount of runoff and is a prime factor in this erosion.

"What typically happens is that you get a significant amount of rainfall that leads to a significant amount of runoff," said Charles Crawford, sampling coordinator for the agency.

The city could achieve that goal more quickly and economically by using permeable pavement to reduce the amount of runoff from the streets of Brooklyn.

Secondly, higher resolution precipitation information is needed (such as hourly data) so that the amount of runoff can be more accurately known.

For example, the city plans to tighten regulations to limit the amount of runoff allowed to emerge from a new property.