Plutonium for nuclear weapons was produced for decades at the Hanford Site, which is now the most contaminated nuclear site in the U.S. All these developments have had a tremendous impact on river environments, mainly through industrial pollution and barriers to fish migration.
Tidal bore is the sudden rise of huge water, about one or two meters high which rushes up a river at tremendous speed and exposes ships to danger of capsizing and twists and uproots jetties.
We see Chinese workers beginning to pave the road, and one of my favorite spots along the way that had a tremendous view of a river and deep forest is now a gravel mine.
For students and teachers at Silvermine Elementary, the enhanced river is a "tremendous resource," said Kimberly Beck, assistant principal.
Allan Hansard, the managing director of the Australian Recreational Fishing Foundation, said it was a "tremendous opportunity to transform our rivers".
Fed by runoff created by the area's frequent tropical downpours, the river was subject to tremendous and rapid variations in its rate of flow.
In most of the large river systems worldwide, a tremendous reduction of floodplain area has occurred in the last 100 years and this loss continues due to pressures such as land use change, river regulation, and dam construction.
Rivers running westward acquired tremendous erosive power.
(Woolfe) ★ 'Nine Rivers' (Wednesday) In a tremendous undertaking jointly produced by the Miller Theater and Works & Process at the Guggenheim, this nine-part magnum opus by the Scottish composer James Dillon receives its American debut.
And the scale was tremendous: towering mountains, limitless vistas, sourceless rivers, as befitted an image of nature that was an emblem of creation itself, a vision of matter forever consolidating and evaporating.
