Sentence examples for impaired streams from inspiring English sources

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.

It includes variable buffer widths for impaired streams (as identified on the USEPA 303d list for stream impairment), 100-year floodplain, wetlands, urban open space and steep slopes.

Finally, labor-intensive variables (e.g., nutrients and fines in sediments) could be added to meet complex management goals such as restoration of impaired streams or mechanistic studies of land use effects on stream ecosystems.

When high intensity development occupied the local elevation highs (+ 15 m) and undeveloped land the elevation lows, the percentage of impaired streams was less than the opposite land cover orientation (− 15 m) or very flat land.

For example, Scarsbrook and others (2000) demonstrated that improvements seen in impaired streams over 8 years could not be distinguished from similar changes observed in reference streams.

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).

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.

Assuming that some patients would also have impaired auditory stream segregation, the use of 'sparse' sampling also removed the distracting effect of background scanner noise during the ListNorm trials.

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