Sentence examples for reservoir hit from inspiring English sources

In the particularly devastating flood of 1997 inflows to the reservoir hit more than, but dam operators managed to limit the outflow to, sparing large regions of the Sacramento Valley from flooding.

After that, if the tip of the planar reservoir hits an active fault or a crack, hot water is ejected and a phreatic eruption occurs.

The nation's largest reservoir has hit a series of troubling milestones over the past year, sinking to a record low in late June.

The companies said an exploration well called Stones #3 had hit reservoirs of natural gas and oil in 7,500 feet of water and at a total depth of 29,400 feet.

The lack of the traditional April showers has led to warnings that parts of the county are running out of water, with reservoirs and rivers hitting increasingly low levels.

Table 1 Number of positive hydrolase hits from functional and sequence-based screening of the oil reservoir metagenomic library CAZyme Functional screening Sequence-based screening No. of hits Hit frequency No. of hits Hit frequency Cellulase 6 0.052 101 0.88 Xylanase 2 0.017 21 0.18 Amylase 85 0.74 174 1.51 Protease 33 0.29 39 0.34 Esterase/lipase 9 0.078 102 0.89.

You could imagine them stalking out of the courthouse in a horizontal row, slow motion à la "Reservoir Dogs," their brown oxfords hitting the ground to the drumbeat of "In-a-Gadda-Da-Vida".

There's one more variable to consider when it comes to protecting the water quality of the Croton Reservoir, ("Plan to Divert Sewage Hits a Snag," April 27) and that's the fate of the 1,000 aging and failing septic systems in Hallocks Mill Drainage Basin in Yorktown that are currently sending untreated sewage into the reservoir.

Striking an oil reservoir with a drill pipe is then like hitting a coin at the base of the building with a strand of human hair.

They also sealed off all the cracks and crevasses in their walkways and buildings with plaster, funneling every possible drop of water that hit Tikal into a reservoir.

The outcry is particularly strong among those in the Northern California, where El Niño storms have hit hardest and filled reservoirs nearly to the brim.