Sentence examples for impervious pavement from inspiring English sources
The sewage system of such an airport must cope with large daily flows of sanitary sewage effluent and, in addition, must accommodate runoff from rain and snow accumulating over several hundred acres of impervious pavement.
A city or town's infrastructure, such as its drainage system quality and how much of its land is covered with impervious pavement, can also influence its risk of flooding, says Andrew Kruczkiewicz who specializes in satellite imagery of flooding and other hazards at Columbia's International Research Institute for Climate and Society.
Given the percentage of impervious pavement in cities, it is an important element to consider in heat island mitigation (U.S. EPA 2011).
But impervious pavements prevented infiltration resulting in significantly lower soil moisture content beneath these pavements.
Impervious pavements such as concrete are a dominant feature of urban landscapes, but their role in the fate of environmental contaminants is largely ignored.
A control impervious concrete pavement (CP) was also prepared.
The results show that surface texture increases noise levels at lower frequencies (below 1600 Hz) especially on impervious asphalt pavements.
Researchers at UC Berkeley used satellite imagery to find neighborhoods in hundreds of U.S. cities where there are few shade trees and a lot of heat-absorbing, impervious surfaces like pavement, cement or roofing.
Urbanization increases surface runoff, by creating more impervious surfaces, such as pavement and buildings do not allow percolation of the water down through the soil to the aquifer.
Stormwater runoff is water from rain or melting snow that travels across impervious surfaces, such as pavement, instead of filtering into the ground.
In the United States alone, pavements and other impervious surfaces cover more than 43,000 square miles an area nearly the size of Ohio according to research published in the 15 June 2004 issue of Eos, the newsletter of the American Geophysical Union.
