Sentence examples for is seepage from inspiring English sources
noun
The process by which a liquid leaks through a porous substance; the process of seeping
"Gordon," the First Secretary replied in his silky smooth voice, "you will find that there are briefings, there are leaks, and then there is seepage.
"We know there is seepage and very little is being done to address the problem," she said.
The radiation has been much better contained at the three damaged reactors in Japan, though the concern there is seepage into the sea.
The most striking example of this situation is seepage from the hydrothermal system beneath the crater lake of Kawah Ijen volcano (Java, Indonesia), feeding the Banyupahit stream ("bitter river", Delmelle and Bernard [2000]; van Hinsberg et al. [2010]).
It has no influent streams: its source water is seepage from a small drainage area (42 ha) and wastewater.
Among the boundary conditions discussed are: seepage face conditions for three-phase problems and multi-node constant-rate pumping wells.
Nazi! Jew!," he and his family shrink into a dank caretaker's cottage whose water supply is poisoned by what his wife, Anna — a frightened rabbit of a woman — believes to be seepage from the graves.
The two major failure modes observed were seepage and piping.
Derived results are seepage velocities and flows, while solid phase displacements and pore pressures are the primary nodal unknowns.
The main causes of loss of stored water are seepage through a leaking basin or dam wall, and evaporation from the surface.
"It should be fairly easy to confirm if there is major seepage going on now," Dr. Baker said.
