Sentence examples for watershed about from inspiring English sources

This house is on three acres adjacent to a watershed, about 15 minutes from a Metro-North Railroad stop.

Each year, 53,000 acres of land are developed in the Chesapeake watershed, about one acre every 10 minutes, according to the Chesapeake Bay Alliance.

The watershed (about 80 km2 in size) comprises a small mountainous valley with steep slopes and deep cut ravines, typical of the landscape pattern in high population intensity mid elevation zone of central Himalaya.

A classification between earthen roads and black top roads for the year 2013 is based on the road survey conducted during field work, where most of black top roads of the Phewa watershed (about 10 km) were surveyed.

Forests cover about 57% of the Potlatch River watershed, while about 38% is used for agriculture and ranching.

Total population of the district is about 586,327 (Registrar General, India 2011), whereas the population lining in the watershed is about 362,823 as per population density.

Hence, the mean annual temperature of the sub-watershed is about 16 °C and the average annual total rainfall is 1133 mm (Fig. 2).

Five micro-watersheds about 0.45 0.5 m above ground level were: (i) transparent plastic sheets, (ii) stones, (iii) compacted soil, (iv) loose soil, and (v) control (no micro-watershed).

Magnesia Springs Canyon is a natural watercourse that drains a watershed of about five and one-quarter square miles in the mountains south of Rancho Mirage.

The river Jorka watershed (area about 65 km2, length of river about 15 km, discharge between 0.1 and 1.5 m3 s−1) contains a typical fragment of lakeland area, with a highly mosaic structure.

The Sulphur Creek subwatershed covers about 17 percent of the entire Aliso Creek watershed, encompassing about 6 square miles in the southwesternmost corner of the 35 square miles Aliso Creek basin.