Sentence examples for dangerous runoff from inspiring English sources
While much of that water has evaporated, a significant portion has also turned into dangerous runoff.
The tracks themselves were modified to avoid dangerous corners and increase runoff areas — Senna had smashed into a wall — and circuit debris fence and other barriers were modified.
Now a tropical depression, the system was expected to travel through Mississippi and Alabama to Tennessee, where its rains could lead to flash flooding because of the rocky soil and the valleys where runoff could become dangerous.
Sometimes a poorly constructed structure becomes dangerous as it aggravates erosion by collecting the surface runoff and enhancing collective high volume flow.
Nitrogen from agricultural runoff is also the primary contributor to dangerous levels of nitrate in drinking water across parts of the U.S., which has been linked to different kinds of cancers and blue baby syndrome, a potentially fatal infant condition.
Rangers said the search was difficult because the area had been hazardous since the runoff of Hurricane Floyd five months ago, and had been made more dangerous by snowstorms and thawing that created shelves of unstable snow.
In this chronically built-up subtropical city, high-velocity runoff from the essentially impermeable surface drives storm canals to dangerous, fast-moving levels, and causes flash flooding and even landslides in some neighbourhoods, even as millions grapple with the daily problem of limited or non-existent water supplies.
Since the dawn of the Industrial Age, we have polluted our streams, rivers, lakes and oceans with pesticide and fertilizer runoff, mining and oil wastes, petrochemical products and thousands of other dangerous products.
They're busy keeping your plants healthy so you don't need to spray dangerous chemical fertilizers and pesticides on to your turf and into your local creeks by runoff.
Stream runoff is exceedingly rare.
