Sentence examples for reservoir about from inspiring English sources
Jersey City, for instance, receives its water from the Boonton reservoir, about 25 miles away.
Repeated testing has not shown any groundwater contamination in the area or in the Wanaque Reservoir, about a mile away.
The first intercepted the stricken well just above the reservoir, about 13,000 feet below the seabed.
The Neversink Reservoir, about 40 miles upstream from the dams, is generally considered to have the cleanest and best water in New York's vast water supply system.
From there, the water meanders through the agrarian countryside – through the towns of Stamford, Delhi and Walton – until it reaches the Cannonsville Reservoir about 50 miles away.
One resort under construction by the Nam Ngum reservoir about 60 miles from the Laotian capital, Vientiane, promises to be the ultimate Asian holiday spot.
The lake on Tuesday was just under 1,082 feet above sea level, and the reservoir was about 39% full, said Rose Davis, a bureau spokeswoman in Boulder City, Nevada.
They reckon the reservoir loses about 1m acre-feet (1.2 billion cubic metres) of water each year to evaporation and seepage into the canyon walls.
Young's modulus, as observed in the outcrop closest to the reservoir is about twice as high (~ 64 GPa) as observed in the reservoir (~ 34 GPa).
Sunday night, with new bands of torrential rain descending on Houston, spokesman Jeff Lindner with the Harris County Flood Control District (encompassing Houston) announced that they would soon release water from the Barker and Addicks reservoirs about 15 miles west of downtown.
Residents began complaining about fishy-tasting water caused by algae blooms in city reservoirs, about pressure-less faucets in multistory buildings and about fire hydrants dribbling while homes went up in flames.
