Sentence examples for drain rainwater from inspiring English sources

Drainage layers in the DT also showed the ability to drain rainwater through the layers effectively.

Also clever are the holes drilled into the chair and ottoman where you would find leather buttons on the original; their job is to drain rainwater.

Tepco has installed pumps designed to drain rainwater into tanks, where it is tested for radiation before it is released into the sea.

The most recent crash may be related to a recent repaving of the runway — workers have not yet installed the grooves that help drain rainwater from the pavement.

Additional coastal flooding hazard arises due to reduced effectiveness of gravity-based drainage systems to drain rainwater during heavy rain events.

For many years archaeologists and conservators have undertaken what they describe as "invisible work" here, like installing cost-effective protective roofing or reactivating the Roman sewers under the ancient city so that buildings can once again drain rainwater.

Green roofs provide many ecosystem services such as regulation of building temperatures, reducing urban heat-island effects and draining rainwater.

BLABLABLA CHAIR (pistachio chair, near left in group photo), has nice high arms with a gentle slope; a handy hole in the seat drains rainwater; $140 at Property, 14 Wooster Street.

The obtained pervious concrete presents a large sufficient permeability (1 mm s−1) for draining rainwater and good mechanical resistance (Rc = 28.6 MPa) with regard to typical pervious concrete applications such as parking lots, walkways and low-traffic roadways.

There's nothing remarkable about Rolf Nikolaus Cornelius Gurlitt's flat, a fifth-floor apartment on the shady side of a modernist apartment block in Munich's Schwabing district: walking distance to the lush English Gardens nearby; a balcony with black stains from years of inefficiently drained rainwater; no plants or flowers.

With depths of up to about 4000m, this trench surrounded by islands, reefs and shoals has an opening to the Atlantic Ocean at its northern end and was carved during the last Ice Age when the land was still above sea level and exposed to erosion from draining rainwater.