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Why is surface runoff from a parking lot or road a problem for a waterway's water quality?
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∙ 11y ago
Mostly because the slop that drips off cars get washed into the nearest waterway.
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∙ 11y ago
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During a rainy spring where are you most likely to find surface runoff?
On a sloped parking lot
What is the rain that is not absorbed by soil and how can it cause pollution?
Rain that is not absorbed by soil is Runoff. It causes pollution by carrying loose surface soil, fertilizers and other chemicals into our natural waterways.
In the Unites States what year was the Clean Water Act passed?
The Clean Water Act passed in 1972. This is a federal law about controlling the pollution of the nation's surface waters like streams, rivers and other waterways.
Could parking lots turn back into a forest if humans vanished from earth?
Quite quickly. Assuming that the parking lot was not toxic to life. Dust and vegetable debris will soon blow over the surface, and provide a toehold for mosses and algae. And from there, the whole succession cycle would continue. At Chernobyl, there are trees growing inside the buildings already.
Why does drip irrigation prevent soil erosion?
The problem of surface soil erosion associated only during surface application method.Soil erosion are practically absent in this method.Because pipes are used to supply water to the fields.
What is the difference of the earth and the sun's surface?
You can still get free parking on the suns surface.
What is the strongest surface for parking a recreation vehicle on?
Concrete
Do you need to use the parking brake?
The only time you "need" to use the parking brake is when you are parking on any kind of incline. However, even if parking on flat surface, it is good to put the parking brake on when parked.
The surface quality of a work is called?
The surface quality is called texture.
Is a driver allowed to park on a hard surface of a highway where parking spaces are not marked?
NO!
What does 'scratched the surface' mean?
If you have just "scratched the surface" of a problem you have not understood it and got to the bottom of what the problem is.
A single word for surface quality?
Texture.
What is the minimum required slope of asphaltic surface parking area?
Generally 1 in 300 is sufficient for parking space, but it can be variable depending upon the location/conditions of site
During a rainy spring where are you most likely to find surface runoff?
On a sloped parking lot
How do you prepare surface showing its quality?
It all depends on the material.
What qualities of a painting surface cause paint to adhere?
If paint is chipping, and has not been scraped. The quality of the surface that makes paint stick is "tooth". The quality of the paint that makes it sick is adhesion.
In a good-quality surface soil which makes up about half the total volume?
In a good-quality surface soil mineral matter and organic matter make up about half the total volume.
