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Перевод: silting

заиливание

Тезаурус:

1. In the mid-fifteenth century, floods and silting doomed the old port of Pevensey; and further along the coast, on Romney Marsh, a series of catastrophic storms culminating in 1287 obliterated the towns of Old Winchelsea and Broomhill.
2. Area fisheries officer Vaughan Lewis said: "The Wye has a healthy trout population but silting up of the river bed can be a problem.
3. As Rojas et al. point out, injudicious land-use practices on the steeper slopes have adverse effects on downstream agricultural lands, including silting and flooding.
4. As a result of glacial history, wind-blown erosion of sand dunes, and silting of the river estuary, the south bank of the Ribble between Southport and Preston is one of the finest vegetable-growing areas in the country.
5. For many years, as a result of the reduction in the flow of the Painswick Stream coupled with the silting up of the mill pond, this had been used on a 50:50 basis with a gas engine, sufficient water only being available for half a day's working.
6. On Romney Marsh, silting of river mouths was worsened by the problem of peat shrinkage.
7. Thus, Ruangpanit concludes that in such regions, especially where it is necessary to ensure watershed protection so that downstream regions are not affected by flooding or excessive silting, crown cover should be maintained at c. 70 per cent with as little bare soil as possible.
8. The removal of the protective forest cover leads to accelerated soil erosion, which in turn affects local hydrological regimes and causes accelerated silting of water-bodies.
9. Once they are removed, all that soil, like the fertilizer, has to go somewhere, and, often as not, it ends up in the watercourse, silting up the stream bed, eroding banks, and worsening flooding.
10. From now until the year 2000, the arts calendar is silting up with festivals, memorials and monumental events.
11. Constant silting and the collapse of flood-banks now threatened Polish trade along its whole length.
12. Not content with this triumph, Joseph Thomas turned his attention to the groyne at the mouth of the harbour which attempted, not very successfully, to prevent sand from the beach silting up the harbour mouth.
13. As Clark (1986) points out, the project was considered to be a failure in both technical and economic terms within 10 years of its inception, not least because of resulting poor drainage, increasing soil salinity and excessive silting.