Sentence examples for point discharges from inspiring English sources

"There are lots of good regulations in the Clean Water Act that deal with point discharges, and we have the Coast Guard to deal with oil spills," Dr. Rabalais said.

The sources of coastal water contamination are: point discharges of treated and untreated sewage from shoreline outfalls, and non-point discharges.

Groundwater exfiltrated through thick peat layers in vertical preferential point discharges demonstrating how double porosity provides flow through the peat layer with low hydraulic conductivity in the peat matrix.

The reduction of point discharges achieved during the 1990s was well translated into decreasing TP and SRP baseflow concentrations during the same period, but it did not induce any change in the concentrations at higher flow levels nor in the annual transport of TP loads.

New Zealand has been predominantly an agricultural economy, and some of the principal pollution problems have derived from the transfer of nutrients from animal wastes and fertilizers into coastal waters, especially those that are semi-enclosed, added to which are the contents of point discharges of municipal sewage and industrial effluent.

In the present study, variation in river DOC could be the result of a combined influence of AD inputs, hydrological point discharge, non-point discharge and sewage inputs.

The rightmost tick-mark then becomes infinity, corresponding to the upper truncation point discharge.

The carbon nanotube was also firstly synthesized by point discharge between two graphite electrodes under high electric field [2].

The location of the experimental setup on a barren land does not favour point discharge current because the sharp edges provided by plants and trees allow for point-discharge currents but in Antarctica there are no trees and plants hence, contribution of point-discharge current is negligible.

Intertidal temperature profile measurements for point discharge estimates will be complicated by varying boundary conditions such as the interaction of insolation and tidal exposure.

However, base-flow acidity in some sub-catchments can be attributed to point discharge from agricultural groundwater drains used to mitigate salinsation of land.