Sentence examples for rain surface from inspiring English sources

In practice, several potential vectors of contamination are controlled: air (and rain), surface water (including sediments and biota), soils around nuclear installations, food chain, drinking water etc.

Residues of GBH are routinely detected in foodstuffs [ 1, 2] and also drinking water contaminated via rain, surface runoff and leaching into groundwater, thereby increasing possible routes of exposure [ 3].

Following rains, surface runoff together with acid mine drainage dispersed solid waste materials and the contamination of surrounding areas may have occurred, such as reported in other areas with old uranium mines [1, 2, 3, 4, 5].

Both rain and surface runoff are tritiated, and a surface runoff sample from the vicinity was found to have a 10 TU value (Bajjali 1990).

Except for the water that enters streams directly as rain or surface runoff, all the running water on the earth's surface was at one time ground water.

Replenishment from rain or surface water, or "recharge" as the experts term it, tends to be gradual.

She added: "A range of factors can trigger sinkhole collapse such as heavy rain or surface flooding".

In really heavy rain, the surface can wash away altogether, especially if the path is on a slope.

In some places it is indeed replenished quite quickly if rain or surface water is available and the geological and soil conditions are favourable.

The larger, deeper lakes are a significant factor within the cycle of water from rain to surface water, ice, soil moisture, or groundwater and thence to water vapour.

At the beginning of the month, a tropical weather system formed southwest of Bermuda and intensified into a Category 4 hurricane, with heavy rain and surface winds reaching a hundred and fifty-five miles per hour.