drainage
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The discovery was made during fieldwork in the Rio Cajari drainage in southern Amapá, a state in northern Brazil.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 8, 2026
It consisted of two concrete pipes, each about 16 feet long and 3 feet in diameter, that descended in an elongated V shape to provide drainage under a road near the village of Petropavlivka.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026
Roots extending away from the sites could be damaged by development, he said, while drainage for nearby new housing could dry out certain tree species and pollute their water supplies.
From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026
“The landscape replaced an asphalt parking lot and is built on top of an underground parking structure, which limits soil depth, weight and drainage and shaped which plants could thrive there,” a museum spokesperson said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026
A precisely engineered drainage system added to the similarity by channeling water from a cistern-like well at the summit down and along the sides, a stylized version of rainwater plashing down the Andes.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
"During these drainages, extensive triangular fracture fields with cracks in the ice formed from 2019 onwards, which are shaped differently from all lake drainages I have seen so far," Humbert said.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 5, 2026
California’s San Joaquin and Sacramento drainages saw smaller, albeit notable, increases in average annual fire weather days of 14 and 13, respectively, since 1973, according to the Climate Central report.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2024
Ghuge, the manager at Ola's Thane workshop, said reported service issues included battery drainages, software glitches and damaged wires.
From Reuters ● Nov. 28, 2023
It cites environmental concerns associated with the construction, claiming Arizona has "cut down and removed scores of trees, clogged drainages, and degraded the habitat of species listed under the Endangered Species Act".
From BBC ● Dec. 15, 2022
There was one or more in every ravine and gully, and what was a new feature, some were built across shallow drainages on the very summit of a hill.
From Unknown Mexico, Volume 1 (of 2) A Record of Five Years' Exploration Among the Tribes of the Western Sierra Madre; In the Tierra Caliente of Tepic and Jalisco; and Among the Tarascos of Michoacan by Carl Lumholtz
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