| During heavy monsoon downpours, the bunds naturally breached causing silt formation in tanks. |
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| Agriculture activities such as terracing earthen bunds and other vegetative measures allow water to percolate into the soil. |
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| Mining often is carried out underwater and one could avoid the water by building bunds and so on. |
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| Other rubble serves to repair roads and shore-up retaining bunds along the shore. |
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| Thirty-one detailed points of concern have been raised by the Bord in respect to peat excavation and its containment in repository bunds. |
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| The local administration has tried to solve this problem by raising the level of the bunds along the river. |
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| Percolation pits dug along the lengths of the bunds would facilitate recharge of groundwater aquifers. |
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| Concrete bunds turn the water sterile and leave no room for natural, vegetated spawning banks. |
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| Active in politics and labor activities, they sponsored bunds, theaters, newspapers, and discussions clubs. |
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| Providing appropriate containment: e.g. bunds and catchpots, building containment. |
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| First they embarked on the construction of 8 km of slope-parallel contour trenches, or bunds. |
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| In the Film Sector, retaining bunds have been built around certain storage tanks at the factory in Bridgwater to limit possible seepage. |
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| Temporary bunds on nullahs, rivulets or small rivers erected by using empty cement bags, popularly known as Vanarai Bunds, have proved most effective. |
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| The bunds are staggered, rather than stretching continuously across the slope from one edge to the other. |
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| Terraces, bunds, irrigation and drainage channels are likely to fall into disrepair, and defences against erosion to be abandoned. |
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| This can occur in coastal areas, rivers, lakes, reservoirs, drainage ditches, flood bunds and overspill ponds. |
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| The interest-rate spread on its five-year government bonds widened to a record 4.1 percentage points over German bunds. |
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| She improved the drain already dug into the slope above her farm and she built stone bunds on her fields. |
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| Separately bund the liquid decanting and storage areas using bunds which are impermeable and resistant to the stored materials. |
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| A large construction company working in the area several times broke the bunds of the tank. |
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| Without the use of land-surveying instruments, she and her neighbours were able to put the bunds along the contour lines of the slope. |
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| The bunds vary in size from half a metre to three metres high, and in width from one third of a metre to two metres. |
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| He stressed that plans were also in place to create bunds, or embankments, to contain the stockpiles, although covering them was impractical for operational reasons. |
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| But he predicts that a rejection of the Lisbon Treaty would send the premium of Irish 10-year bonds over German bunds, the euro zone's benchmark, to 200 basis points or higher. |
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| Equipped with our FILTRELEC filtering system, these bunds drain off rain water while guaranteeing very efficient recuperation of any traces of hydrocarbons. |
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| The line of croton helped to stabilize the bunds. |
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| For fodder the small bunds at the end of terraces were planted with a new Napier grass variety, which had been bred for a higher nutritive value and to eliminate its cutting edges. |
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| Now all of her farmland has been improved with stone bunds. |
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| This allows plough oxen to move from one level to the next in a zigzag pattern, passing through gaps in one level of bunds that lie above a continuous piece of bund at the next level. |
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| Khuhro further briefed that Irrigation staff is available for 24 hours monitoring on the Bunds and all preparations have been made ready to face any eventuality. |
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