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  • In the simplest situation leaching is down to a watertable which is at considerable depth, (and which will remain so).

    Chapter 9 1995

  • Not only does the fluid safeguard traditional funeral customs whilst enhancing the appearance of the deceased, importantly the product provides a safer working environment for Embalmers and, allows the natural decomposition process to occur without seeping harmful toxins into the ground and watertable.

    Ecopods are burying the greenwash | The Greenwash Brigade | Marketplace from American Public Media 2008

  • When Mr. Darne worker in the twenties, or thirties, or whenever attached the stock to the receiver/watertable, he stuck that rod in some pig fat, and screwed the thing AS TIGHT AS HE COULD GET IT into the wood of the stock.

    French Design: Shotguns 2006

  • Discovered last week that leving the main yard in a complete state of neglect had environmentally friendly issues: apparently there's a trend to have "rain gardens" or "micro-wetlands" in order to help filter airborne pollutants out of rainwater before the runoff makes it into the watertable &, eventually, our drinking water.

    Progday 2: melodic, revisiting, and the man who painted the spiders from mars badger 2002

  • Where there is rock or a high watertable, the vaults can be placed above the ground.

    Chapter 5 2000

  • In large areas of near-flat terrain, soil conditions will be the controlling factor early in the monsoon, but the watertable is likely to rise to the surface and limit seepage later in the season.

    Chapter 7 1995

  • Seepage rates determined from a bunded plot several square meters in area are more relevant, although not necessarily reflecting the effects of repeated puddling, nor of seasonal rise in watertable.

    Chapter 7 1995

  • There are also ground conditions (high watertable) in which rotational operation would be destructive to a lined secondary, due to back-pressure on the lining.

    Chapter 11 1995

  • Rate of seepage is influenced not only by the character of the soil and the extent of puddling (collectively determining its permeability), but also by external factors including topography and watertable depth.

    Chapter 7 1995

  • Heavy monsoon rains rapidly raise the watertable by several feet to the surface and the rate of infiltration becomes virtually nil.

    Chapter 7 1995

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