Sentence examples for heavy siltation from inspiring English sources

They continued cultivating the steep river banks, and when the rains came there was heavy siltation of the system.

In areas subject to heavy siltation, this dredged area will almost certainly act as a silt trap.

There are a number of constraints: limited local budgets, politics and natural factors such as steep banks, heavy siltation, tidal and spring flooding and annual ice flows.

Some of the main challenges are high capital investment costs on projects of this nature and heavy siltation of small reservoirs due to extensive soil erosion.

But floodplain cultivation has the disadvantage of contributing to heavy siltation of rivers and dams downstream, and leads to increased flooding downstream.

Increased soil erosion, resulting from deforestation of mountains, has led to heavy siltation of rivers and streams, thus impairing the basic ecological requirements of mahseer.

On the other hand, siltation of rivers and their pollution with heavy metals goes unchecked while the prohibition of artisanal mining, in and around conservation areas has proven counterproductive.

During a normal monsoon season, Angkor's hydraulic network could have handled heavy downpours, but after extended droughts, the system may have been vulnerable to massive siltation and clogging, the study suggests.

Here the soils under the E. saligna plantation were located on the toe slope (flat surface) and signs of severe deposition (siltation, floods and stagnant water bodies) were generally observed in the area after heavy rainfall.

(d Hydrologic balance: Siltation structures.

Later, continued siltation hindered further usage.