Sentence examples for increased stormwater from inspiring English sources

Increased stormwater runoff from impervious surfaces is a major concern in urban areas and green roofs are increasingly used as an innovative means of stormwater management.

Increased stormwater runoff, modification of the river's banks and other changes all served to exacerbate the problem.

From a city's perspective, extreme weather and climate change are causing and will cause real-world problems, like: increased stormwater runoff overwhelming sewers and culverts, more extreme heat days that increase hospital visits for the young and old, rising sea levels and storm surges that flood coastal infrastructure.

Urbanization causes hydrological change and increases stormwater runoff volumes, leading to flooding, erosion, and the degradation of instream ecosystem health.

During intense rainstorms, the system effectively attenuated stormwater and increased the infiltration rate.

The increased load on urban stormwater systems due to climate change and growing urbanization can be partly alleviated by using soakaways and similar infiltration techniques.

In parallel, measurements of DOM characteristics from groundwaters influenced or not by MAR demonstrated that stormwater infiltration increased DOC quantity without affecting its quality (% of biodegradable DOC and relative aromatic carbon content –estimated by SUVA254-).

Leishman et al. (2004) found that increased soil P in stormwater runoff areas in Australia (defined as >150 mg kg−1) resulted in significantly increased invasive species cover proportional to natives.

Bioretention cells (BCs) have received increasing attention in stormwater quality and quantity management.

Concentrations increased by 5 150 times after stormwater overflow events.

In pre- and post-program surveys, female and underrepresented minority students reported that SMART activities and their relationship with mentors have increased their awareness of how stormwater affects the community and increased their interest in pursuing a STEM career.