Sentence examples for cause of ground from inspiring English sources

While private industry spent millions to meet a 1998 federal deadline to upgrade leaking underground fuel tanks -- the nation's leading cause of ground water pollution -- state and local government agencies continue to operate thousands of antiquated tanks in danger of leaking chemicals into water supplies, records show.

Groundwater drawdown is known as the most commonly reported cause of ground subsidence.

Liquefaction is known as one of the major causes of ground failure due to the earthquake.

The pattern and probable causes of ground motion variations in different engineering-geological conditions are characterized.

Topographical effects may cause concentration of ground motion and induces larger response of the MDOF models.

Textile industries consume high volumes of water per unit fabric for processing, which cause depletion of ground water levels at a high rate.

Errors in rectification and GPS coordinates cause observations of ground attributes to be associated with spectral values of incorrect pixels which, in turn, introduces classification errors into the resulting maps.

However, the problem associated with the continuous use of chemical fertilizer is that while it can lead to high crop yield; it may cause pollution of ground water after crop harvest (Gordon et al. 1993), and have adverse effects on plant quality.

Former use of the herbicide 2,6-dichlorobenzonitrile (dichlobenil) has caused pollution of ground and surface water resources by the stable degradation product 2,6-dichlorobenzamide (BAM) in several parts of Europe, which has resulted in the costly closure of several drinking water wells.

Officials are investigating the cause of the grounding.

"The National Transportation Safety Board determines that the probable cause of the grounding of the mobile offshore drilling unit Kulluk was Shell's inadequate assessment of the risk for its planned tow of the Kulluk," said the NTSB report.