Sentence examples for flow of runoff from inspiring English sources

The tax specifically funds storm drains, collection ponds, stream restorations and other improvements that control and slow the flow of runoff.

FDOT slated the neighborhood for a future stormwater pond as part of its I-4 expansion project, which will intensify the flow of runoff from the highway.

Unfortunately, says Fajardo, many of those dikes and dams are altering the flow of runoff from land to sea - depriving the buffering mangroves of the fresh water and sediments they need for the ecosystem to be sustained.

Salt (MgCl2) is also not applied to the stretch of highway closest to the ponds (Kendal Weeks, Oregon Department of Transportation Road Maintenance, personal communication), which is located over 4 km away, at a similar elevation, and the intervening area is covered with a series of hills not conducive to a flow of runoff from the highway reaching the ponds.

There are various factors involved in the flowing of runoff and flooding, including intensity of rainfall, watershed slope, soil infiltrability, topographic conditions, topographic features, vegetation, and soil saturation (Thomas, 1968; Eard 1975).

Soils on steep, long slopes are much more susceptible to erosion than those on shallow, short slopes because the steeper slopes accelerate the flow of surface runoff.

The earlier arrangements for a water transfer have been judged by environmental groups and government agencies to be unsatisfactory because they would have reduced the flow of agricultural runoff into the Salton.

Increasing the flow of agricultural runoff from coastal lands can spur the growth of mangroves in height, but it can also diminish the amount of carbon they store in the soil.

Although both mechanisms provide the fast-flow component of runoff (Hewlett and Hibbert, 1967; Agnese et al., 2001), the former has a faster response time than the latter because the residence time of water at the surface is shorter than the residence time of water in the soil.

Stream flows and volumes of runoff were evaluated at the watershed outlet and at the end of each subbasin.

Increasing dominance of responsive peaty soils leads to more saturation overland flow, increased flashiness of runoff, reduced groundwater recharge, reduced MRTs and more marked diurnal variations in flow, which drive concomitant difference in hydrochemistry.