Sentence examples for drain land from inspiring English sources

Reversing centuries of efforts to drain land, dredge rivers and rush water to the sea, banks have been built to deliberately flood fields.

Florida Governor William Bloxham in 1881 appealed directly to a Pennsylvania-based industrialist named Hamilton Disston, initially to build canals to improve steamboat passage through the Caloosahatchee River, and drain lands in the central part of the state to turn into agriculturally productive tracts.

A rule of thumb states that there is at least one acre of privately drained land for each acre in an organized project, indicating about 185,000,000 acres (75,000,000 hectares) of agricultural land drained in the United States at that time.

Exploitation and oxidation of the tracts' peaty soils have caused the drained land to sink by as much as 30 feet (nine metres) below sea-level in some places.

Most of these originate as a result of draining land for agriculture in South Asia.

Streams in agricultural areas with a high proportion of drained land may be subject to numerous peaks of EEQ during the course of the year.

In in the last 10-15 years, droughts in Banat Plain have imposed finding new sources of water for irrigation application on drained land.

New landowners, eager to make good on their investments, hastily constructed homes and small towns on recently drained land.

In 1959, severe floods in la ville basse prompted the building of large scale embankments along the edges of the Betsimitatatra rice fields and the establishment of new ministerial complexes on newly drained land in the Anosy neighborhood.

36 If B. pseudomallei water density reflects soil density, detecting B. pseudomallei in rivers could potentially locate draining land areas with high bacterial density.

For eons, Lake Okeechobee served as the Everglades' giant wellspring, until the federal government diked the lake and drained lands around it after devastating hurricanes in 1928 and 1947.