Sentence examples for farm runoff from inspiring English sources
noun
Water leaving farm fields, polluted by animal waste and excess fertilizers
Trees planted along streams can take up and scrub out polluted farm runoff.
It has done little to regulate farm runoff, a major source of water pollution.
Farm runoff can be a source of pollution of surface and groundwater resources.
Blooms tend to thrive in Lake Erie during summer, sustained by warm water temperatures and nutrients from farm runoff.
Efforts to mitigate farm runoff into the streams, along with upgrades to poorly functioning wastewater treatment plants proved successful.
An annual surge in farm runoff, carried by the Mississippi into the Gulf, feeds algae blooms, which consume available oxygen as they decay.
Quantities of sewage are poured into it daily, 95% of which is untreated, and it is also a depository for industrial effluents, chemicals from farm runoffs and arsenic and fluoride contamination.
Stormwater detention areas (SDAs) play an important role in treating end-of-the-farm runoff in phosphorous (P) limited agroecosystems.
Great news considering the tourist attraction and national wonder hasn't been so lucky when it comes to global warming, coral bleaching, the influx of the crown-of-thorns starfish, and farming runoff.
A recent study by the Pew Oceans Commission, an independent group examining government policies, called huge livestock feedlots and farm fertilizer runoff among the fastest-growing sources of pollution in oceans thousands of miles away.
Australian marine scientists have announced new research showing that more than half the reef has disappeared during the last 27 years, and now the prime culprits are starfish blooms brought on by farm-fertilizer runoff, climate change and damaging cyclones.
