Sentence examples for slow runoff from inspiring English sources

Creating a rain garden will slow runoff and allow more absorption into the ground.

Frannie — a name he introduced me to — would still have a huge business in a slow runoff.

Many such practices focus on the use of vegetation to slow runoff and allow for sorption of the various contaminants.

The water retention function is defined as the ability of the landscape to retain water, slow runoff and encourage water infiltration.

Slotted inlet pipes are drainage water management structures that theoretically slow runoff velocities, detain a variable pool of water, and encourage sedimentation.

Next to the separate evaluation of the subflow recessions, the quick and slow runoff peak and low values and event volumes, also the performance of the model in predicting extreme high and low flow statistics is validated.

The thicker, taller grasses also create a kind of webbing that slows runoff, keeps sediment out of lakes and tanks, and creates shade that protects lower growing grasses and helps the ground retain water.

Herd migration also churns up the earth, allowing rain to penetrate it further and slowing runoff, and natural "fertilizers" containing additional microbes are left in the herd's wake.

Moreover, with up to 60 entrances to each one's underground burrows, they turn parts of the landscape into a "sponge" that soaks up monsoon rains and slows runoff, helping to keep rivers full year-round.  .

The regular variety of this soil, which occurs on slopes with a grade of 8% to 25%, is the same, but has a bedrock depth of 18 inches and slower runoff.

Crusts with roughened surfaces slow rainwater runoff and increase water infiltration into the soil.