Sentence examples for heavy silting from inspiring English sources

Heavy silting of the Malacca estuary, combined with the rise of Singapore, led to Malacca's decline.

These include heavy silting of the riverbed, which could eventually cripple the dam, the accumulation of heavy metals and other pollutants in the waters, and now riverbank erosion.

The two dams have also been equipped to deal with heavy silt accumulation.

Engineers worried that the Yangtze's heavy silt might back up behind the Three Gorges Dam, limiting efficiency.

The Wei and its tributaries have always carried a heavy silt load and thus have never been major waterways.

Heavy silt accumulation, if seemingly less alarming, could also pose severe problems upstream as it gradually builds up the floor of the reservoir.

At the Nile barrages, the heavy silt-laden floodwater is allowed to pass through the sluices so that only the cleaner water at the end of the flood season is stored.

The Lesotho headwaters flow over the turf soil that covers Drakensberg lava and cut through the lava to expose underlying sedimentary rocks; material eroded from these rocks contributes to heavy silt deposits farther down the river's course.

The river of colloquial English carries a heavy silt of mildly pejorative or satirical epithets: egghead, boffin, highbrow, bluestocking, know-all, telly don, media don, chattering classes, too clever by half.

The damages caused by floods and bank erosion is some times irreversible for example the loss of cropland to the river and salt deposition over farmland when the flood water enters the farmers field through embankment breaches and leaves a heavy silt deposit.

The ashy smell hung low and the heavy, silt air, thick and grey, tasted wrong.