Sentence examples for receiving waterways from inspiring English sources

Vegetation cover, specifically emergent macrophyte cover, is critical to the performance of constructed stormwater treatment wetlands which are widely used to protect receiving waterways.

Conventional stormwater management diverts runoff quickly either to receiving waterways or to municipal drainage systems, accelerating pollutant contamination and degradation of hydrologic ecosystem and causing flooding.

Poor surface soil structure increases the risk of soil erosion by water and eroded clay-sized particles can carry adsorbed phosphorus (P) to the surface waters, thus inducing eutrophication of receiving waterways.

The amount of human altered land surface within a watershed has long been known to influence the biota of receiving streams and waterways.

Both rivers exchange significant amounts of CO2 with the atmosphere (i.e., Anacostia at 0.2 72 mmol m−2 d−1 and Potomac at 0.12 24 mmol m−2 d−1), implying that waterways receiving organic matter and nutrient subsidies from urbanized landscapes have the potential to increase river metabolism and atmospheric CO2 fluxes along the freshwater estuarine continuum.

Environmental risk assessment relies principally on effect assessments derived for single chemicals tested under laboratory conditions, yet many waterways receive discharges from wastewater treatment works (WwTW) that are contaminated with tens of thousands of chemicals.

Wangkuai is preparing for what officials call a "major political task"—channelling its water to Beijing, to help boost the city's severely depleted supplies.On September 28th, after more than four years' work on a 307km-long (191-mile) waterway costing more than $2 billion, Beijing began receiving its top-up.

Our waterways will receive further development later this year when Tokyo's world famous Tsukiji Fish Market, one of the world's largest, will be inaugurated at its new location in Toyosu, and will include many sustainability practices and improvements.

Oseltamivir carboxylate (OC), Tamiflu's active metabolite, is known to withstand activated sludge treatment at sewage treatment plants (STPs), but less is known about how much OC may make its way into waterways that receive STP effluent.

Coarse sediments transported by stormwater runoff have negative effects on the receiving body of water and the aquatic environment by covering up aquatic habitats and clogging waterways.

The model takes into account costs and water quality in the receiving water body, and is therefore able to meet surface water quality standards in the shared waterway.