Sentence examples for blocking of creeks from inspiring English sources

The report also found violations including the blocking of creeks and destruction of mangrove ecosystems.

Therefore, fragmentation per se does not directly result in environmental change in blocked tidal creeks; rather, disruption of hydrologic connectivity induces an ecological cascade culminating in novel environmental conditions to which fragmentation-tolerant organisms, such as mosquitofish, may adapt.

The shanties of the poor, as well as the trash of the rich, have blocked gutters and creeks.

The purpose of this project was to block the Worli creek and prevent the low-lying areas of Bombay from being flooded at high tide.

Veering southwest, we entered a new network of creeks, cutting diagonally into the interior of Pirkhali, a block of islands measuring roughly a hundred and fifty square kilometres and marked on maps as being "dense mixed jungle".

Here in New York City, where the process of damming of creeks dates hundreds of years to the Dutch and English, a few creeks even now entertain spawning runs.

A number of creeks, including Jerrabomberra and Yarralumla Creeks, flow into the Molonglo and Murrumbidgee.

Water obstacle density was estimated as number of creeks per meter.

Each year the emperor had laborers carve 1000 blocks of ice from frozen creeks in mountain valleys, each block with the dimension of 3 ft (0.91 m) by 3 ft by 3½ ft (1.06 m).

They are hard to detect because there are so many creeks, you can't block all of them and these guys are native to the area - they know all the creeks," said Mpaka Jack, who is in charge of surveillance of the Shell pipelines.

There was a lower diversity of the life forms downstream, "which could impact nutrient cycling," a building block of life in the creek, the USGS explained in a statement that announced the study.