Sentence examples for rain runoff from inspiring English sources
The additional pavement accelerates rain runoff, adding to flood dangers.
Countermeasures included collecting rain runoff from roofs in cisterns or rain barrels.
She also had to figure out how to direct rain runoff away from the building.
For this purpose, laboratory aging tests were performed simulating acid atmosphere exposure and acid rain runoff.
She also said that improvements were needed in the plan to manage rain runoff on the 12-acre site.
After a heavy rain, runoff can carry all sorts of stuff into them, and not just from people.
One of nine reservoirs that store water destined for the Bay Area, Hetch Hetchy catches snowmelt and rain runoff from the High Sierra.
A sunken octagonal basin in the church floor, originally built to channel the Roman palace's springs and rain runoff, is now often mistaken for a baptismal pool.
After the rare rains, runoff drags heavy metals, pesticides, cigarette butts, animal waste and other pollutants into streams and rivers and eventually to the Pacific Ocean, turning Los Angeles County's beaches into the filthiest in the state.
Heavy rains, runoff, and rising rivers resulted in extensive flooding in northeast, central, and southern Indiana.
JAUNTS : Glittering Shoreline Is Really Visit by Red Tide : Heavy rains, runoff have triggered one of the longest-lasting buildups of microscopic organisms to visit the coast in years.
