Sentence examples for impede flooding from inspiring English sources

As a consequence of this disaster, commercial ships are now forbidden from having internal structures that impede flooding across the hull.

Radio stations, one of the most reliable sources of information for people without power, were also impeded by flooding on Monday.

She reeled off the list: plastic bags require nonrenewable fossil fuels for their manufacture, disperse themselves easily because of their lightness, impede waterways, contribute to flooding, pollute oceans, entangle wildlife, kill sea turtles, degrade to small particles, contaminate water and soil, overwhelm landfills, and cost huge amounts of money to clean up and dispose of.

The terrain there is level and underlaid by a hardpan that impedes drainage and encourages flooding.

The untended yards, Mr. Sheehan said, become breeding grounds for mosquitoes and contribute to flooding by impeding drainage.

According to Connolly-Boutin and Smit (2016) on sub-Saharan Africa, climate change has caused increased droughts and floods which impede people's ability to grow food and rear livestock.

Debris and flooding also impeded and obstructed of parts of the Bruce, Gillies, and Palmerston highways.

Following the storm, strong winds impeded cleanup efforts, and flooding became an issue near the coast as a result of excessive rainfall and ice jams.

The Grebbe-Peel Line in the Netherlands, which stretched from the southern shore of the Zuider Zee to the Belgian border near Weert, had a large number of fortifications combined with natural obstacles, such as marsh-lands and the Geld Valley, which could easily be flooded to impede an attack.

In most instances, a single survey was performed that did not account for seasonal differences in either disease incidence or factors that might affect access to health facilities, such as planting and harvest times and rainfall with flooding, which impedes local transport.

The winter freeze in northern and eastern Europe is another aspect of climate, and the spring thaw, by creating floods, impedes transport and harasses farmers.