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Flood control concern
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stormwater
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Stormwater is water that originates during precipitation events and snow/ice melt. Stormwater can soak into the soil (infiltrate), be held on the surface and evaporate, or runoff and end up in nearby streams, rivers, or other water bodies ( surface water ...
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n. Water that is not absorbed into soil and rapidly flows downstream, increasing the level of waterways.
Usage examples of stormwater.
We fell a couple of meters, nothing in our gravity, and splashed into a stormwater drain.
It had originally been commissioned by the city as a stormwater reservoir, then changed to a garbage dump.
I do not understand the current frenzy, since point-source discharges from the floodplain's seventeen small towns produce in one calendar year twelve times the amount of chemically contaminated stormwater runoff, groundwater leaching, and coliform discharge into surface waters than the combined discharge of all farms in the floodplain for the past decade.