Sentence examples for flood capacity from inspiring English sources
Officials with the Army Corps of Engineers have said that the reservoir levels were drawn down to "full flood capacity," when rain unexpectedly filled the space set aside for snowmelt — forcing the dams to release more water than ever before.
Although in-channel capacity of the Waipaoa River has remained constant, flood capacity within the stopbanks has been reducing (Gomez et al., 1999) but it continues to be unclear what the flood plain responses to reforestation have been.
The relentless precipitation pushed the Russian River past its flood capacity overnight and sent water streaming into nearby communities, forcing thousands to evacuate.
The flooding capacity and liquid holdup trends of the water-irrigated packed column operating under non-wetting condition were found to be similar to those reported for liquid metal systems despite the pronounced differences in liquid density and surface tension.
Results on flow visualization, flooding capacity and liquid holdup trends, as well as the particulate removal performance of the non-wetting packed bed scrubber are presented in this paper.
In the case of the overhead nozzle, pressure drop and liquid saturation increased with gas and liquid throughputs though leading to considerably widened flooding capacity as the column shifted from verticality.
Urbanization increased the flooding capacity of the river as green areas that absorb water into the water table disappeared.
These tools concerned the loading and flooding capacities, the total liquid hold-up, the irrigated pressure drop, the local volumetric liquid-side, kLa, and gas-side, kGa, mass transfer coefficients, the overall volumetric, KLa and KGa, mass transfer coefficients, and the packing fractional wetted area.
The roughness and its variations have an obvious effect on the flood control capacity and the flow capacity.
For the former, the network connectedness was evaluated by calculating the "gamma index of connectivity" and "alpha index of circuitry"; for the latter, the ratio of flood-control capacity to projected flood level was devised and calculated.
The measures increase the flood conveyance capacity as well as biodiversity.
