Sentence examples for vast drainage system from inspiring English sources

This Laramide uplift caused the sea to retreat and laid the framework for a vast drainage system of rivers flowing from the Rocky and Appalachian Mountains, the predecessor of the modern-day Mississippi watershed.

The vast majority of the Mississippi River drainage system has been channeled and dammed, reducing the gravel deposits and slow-moving side channels that are its favored spawning areas.

The sparsely populated plain is essentially a vast hollow below the level of the Mekong, and it has been partially reclaimed by a levee and drainage system.

(The city's drainage system needs attention).

Despite Headingley's new fancy drainage system.

It lacks a sewer or drainage system.

In the worst hit-region in the Valle de Chalco, Conagua is now building a new drainage system for aguas negras (black waters, or raw sewage) that includes four of the world's most powerful submersible pumps (each requiring 122 tonnes of diesel a day), several vast lumbrera (intake pipes), and a new five-metre-diameter tunnel to divert floodwaters.

But many say uncontrolled development in the area made things worse, with the drainage system overwhelmed.

A large decked terrace overhangs a pond which acts as a drainage system.

The changes are being made following the installation of a new drainage system and fresh sod.

The building was renovated and its drainage system repaired during the cleanup, officials said.