surface drainage in a sentence
Examples
- It has no surface drainage, but has a karst drainage system through cave formation in the underlying limestone.
- In the mid nineteenth century the water courses were used for boiling vegetables, surface drainage and emptying cesspools.
- Check surface drainage around the outside to make sure the ground slopes away from the basement on all sides.
- About half of that evaporates, and the rest of it runs off through Stor?via ground water and surface drainage.
- This creates a landscape geologists call karst, which lacks surface drainage but which has all manner of characteristic surface and subsurface features.
- In contrast, during interglacial and interstadial periods, more effective coupling occurred between the surface drainage network and the internal karst drainage system.
- DeSazilly also developed a process of surface drainage for building on a slope, and contributed to the building of railways, roads, and bridges.
- Often this network of underground drainage feeds back to surface drainage along the edges of larger rivers, which are the effective base level.
- The waffle slab foundation is very stiff, with strength to resist differential swelling resulting from landscaping practices, surface drainage, or flooding from any source.
- In 1970, surface drainage, sewage, and industrial pollution caused a group of scientists and environmentalists to pronounce the river " dead " around Memphis.