Sentence examples for excess sediment from inspiring English sources

The shoreline will be rebuilt, excess sediment removed, drain pipes diverted and Olmsted's landscape reborn.

More than 17 million cubic yards of excess sediment already clog the ports, with that amount expected to grow to 21 million cubic yards by 2015.

David S. Kvinge, director of environmental planning for Westchester, says Paine Lake, like scores of other small bodies of water in the county, was designed many years ago as part of a plan to control floodwater and collect excess sediment.

Excess sediment can compromise the water intake for supply systems.

This phase of excess sediment supply and valley aggradation coincides well with post glacial climatic amelioration.

Log[RBS⁎] was consistently negatively related to human disturbances likely to produce excess sediment inputs or hydrologic alteration.

Whereas impoundments are characterised by deposition and an excess of sediment with remobilisation of fine sediments during severe floods, the remaining five free flowing sections of the Danube are experiencing river bed erosion of the order of several centimetres per year.

Excess suspended sediment can negatively affect salmonid health.

Land management practices that lead to excess nutrients, sediment, pathogens, and agrochemicals reaching waterbodies, or that negatively affect the hydrology, habitat, and structure of waterbodies, can degrade water quality.

The resultant GIUS was a function of the rainfall excess intensity and sediment delivery ratio.

For decades, the Chesapeake Bay the largest estuary in the United States has suffered from excess nutrients and sediments that pour into its waters.