Sentence examples for high water tables from inspiring English sources

Most of these systems cannot be repaired because of poor soil and drainage conditions, small lot size, and high water tables.

The primary problem, she said, is that many new homes are built on manmade slopes so residents can have basements without builders having to dig into the ground and cope with high water tables.

In many towns in northern New Jersey that have high water tables, homes are generally equipped with sump pumps, and often battery backups, since home inspectors usually recommend them when buyers request a report on a home before purchase.

The agency has been reviewing a proposed new path for Keystone XL that aims to avoid the permeable soil and high water tables of the state's Sand Hills region.

In this case subsurface drainage systems must be installed so that high water tables are lowered and pure water flushed through the soil, dissolving the salts and carrying them away in the drainage water.

The Jezre'el Valley, Israel has inherent drainage problems; high water tables are common.

(The area has a high water table).

An unusually wet spring and summer resulted in a very high water table.

But Fukushima sits at the bottom of a hill, on land with a high water table.

Now it is on and pumping furiously but the whole area here has a very high water table.

The region also has a high water table that contains mostly brackish, unpotable water.