Sentence examples for soil runoff from inspiring English sources

But Mr. Lawitts said there were also questions about the dangers of leaks, spills, soil runoff and other contamination from the water used in drilling.

Soil runoff adds to the silt in the brown Yangtze, which collects at the base of the new dam and requires constant dredging.

Oil construction sites larger than five acres often dealt with the regulation by building ponds to collect the storm water and soil runoff.

But Friday's daylong, relentless rain, continuing from the night before, left me thinking more about drainage and soil runoff than about much of the music.

STORM RUNOFF Final rule, December 2009 Developers must prevent soil runoff from damaging area streams or waterways, with any site disturbing 10 or more acres required to monitor discharges.

Mr. Cox said that he flew over parts of Iowa in a helicopter last spring after a severe storm and found that deep gullies had formed in unprotected farmland, becoming conduits for soil runoff.

The BCM (Figure 2) mechanistically models the pathways of precipitation into evapotranspiration, infiltration into soils, runoff, or percolation below the root zone to recharge groundwater.

Pharmaceuticals have been detected in wastewater effluents, biosolids, biosolid-amended soils, runoff from effluent-irrigated fields, surface and groundwater systems receiving treated wastewater (Kolpin et al. 2002; Pedersen et al. 2005; Kinney et al. 2006; Chefetz et al. 2008; Xu et al. 2009; Miller et al. 2016).

Small lakes and streams are closely associated with watershed factors such as soils, runoff characteristics, shoreline processes, and meteorological events.

These patches differ in soil properties, runoff generation, and sediment production; runoff yield is highest in the routes.

However, scientific reports about biomass ethanol raise some of the same concerns that have been raised with corn ethanol, including potential problems with soil erosion, runoff and soil fertility.