Sentence examples for impaired stream from inspiring English sources

Runoff of agricultural nutrients and sediments has led to re-eutrophication of lakes and impaired stream health in the Great Lakes Basin since around 2000 following earlier success in protecting water quality.

The metropolitan-urbanized and non-metro urbanized strata both have higher overall impaired stream length (14.00% and 14.20%, respectively) compared to the less-urbanized and thinly populated strata (8.79% and 6.54% respectively) (Table  2).

This study examined the abundance, scaling, and impairment of surface water by quantifying the stream length, water body area, and impaired stream length for 3520 cities in the United States with populations from 2500 to 18 million.

Relative to population, impaired stream length did not increase until city populations were > 25,000 people, then scaled linearly with population.

Stream length, water body area, and impaired stream length were quantified using the National Hydrography Dataset and the EPA's 303 d) list.

Our results demonstrate that a combination of good habitat and low specific conductance is generally associated with favorable benthic macroinvertebrate scores, whereas poor habitat combined with water quality conditions typically indicative of high ionic strength are associated with impaired stream status.

The work demonstrated that novel multi-barrier systems could produce high quality potable water from impaired streams.

Collectively, the rapid changes in biological and physicochemical attributes that we observed suggest that even relatively small forest fragments may be able to markedly influence impaired streams and that conservation and restoration of small, discontinuous forest fragments may be important for maintaining stream ecosystem integrity in agricultural landscapes.

Downstream water use by municipal suppliers is impaired by stream concentrations > 10 mg/l, and load reductions > 30% may be necessary to mitigate Gulf of Mexico hypoxia.

"It could cost broadcasters millions of dollars and would probably cripple or seriously impair the streaming of radio signals over the Internet".

In addition, erythropoietin, which normally enhances iron transport from macrophages to the blood stream, is impaired, thereby exacerbating relative iron deficiency (19).