Sentence examples for off the watershed from inspiring English sources

Gen. WALSH: Well, what we're looking for is the height of the--height of the water as it--as it comes in off the watershed and goes into the river.

By the turn of the last century the Bronx River had already become an open sewer, prompting renewal efforts that galvanized around a parkway to cordon off the northern end of the watershed between Westchester and the Bronx Zoo.

Dartmouth owns most of the watershed.

They take up 6.7% of the watershed.

Nearly all of the watershed is urban.

The user also has the option to turn off the default watershed-based segmentation that is used to split adjacent FAs and modify the minimum or maximum FA size accepted by the system.

The analysis of areal extent of the watersheds shows higher mean annual run off, higher mean discharge, lower sediment yield and lower flood discharge per unit area in larger watersheds such as Koneri, Thalugai and Kottarakkannu.

But Constance cannot shake off her upbringing before the watershed of the 1960s - "I remain hidebound by the pre-pill morality and my parents' fossilised attitudes".

New York State needs to adopt regulations that place the watershed permanently off limits, while imposing the strictest possible safeguards on drilling anywhere else where drinking water supplies might be affected.

The Chesapeake Energy Corporation, which owns the lease to drill in the watershed, has backed off from plans to drill there specifically, but opponents of drilling have argued that the promise means little and could be reversed.

But New York City officials warn that hydrofracturing outside the watershed boundaries could set off tiny subsurface shocks, cracking the aging tunnels that bring water to the city and allowing water to leak out of the tunnels and gas to seep in.