Sentence examples for seepage to from inspiring English sources

They inspect for signs of seepage to ensure that the levee is indeed steady.

Manhole incidents can range from simple smoke seepage to explosions that shoot manhole covers several stories into the air, he said.

Mr. Kinjo and others said the problem might have surfaced only recently because of the time it took the seepage to reach the groundwater.

Jim Long, a spokesman for the New York City Fire Department, said that manhole problems ranged from simple smoke seepage to explosions shooting manhole covers several stories into the air.

Outflows are groundwater pumping and groundwater seepage to rivers, which exit the basin in the east.

With every swing of their arms, the crabs churn up water and seepage to ensure that the bacteria get fresh supplies of oxygen and hydrogen sulphide.

Here we explore local species richness and compositional variation of forest spring-fed patches (i.e. seepages), to test the hypothesis that these habitats might act as biodiversity hotspots and refugia of regional snail faunas.

By comparing land snail assemblages of the studied seepages with those occurring in the woodland surroundings of each site as well as those previously sampled in 28 preserved forest sites within the study area, we found the seepages to be among the most species rich sites.

They point to a study by the National Academy of Sciences that attributed 62% of the oil found in seawater to natural seepage, 32% to leaks from shipping and run-off from land, 4% to spills from oil tankers and around 1% to faulty offshore rigs and pipelines.

In the water injection process weak sandstone reservoirs, the permeability of weak sandstones is no longer constant, but belongs to nonlinear seepage due to the transport of rock particles.

Grey water damage occurs commonly due to sump pump failures, seepage due to hydrostatic failure and water discharge from dishwashers or washing machines.