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Impermeable: - Not easily penetrated. The property of a material or soil that does not allow, or allows only with great difficulty, the movement or passage of water.
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Cleaning up the beaches  -  04 Aug 2008
Newsday,As Long Island develops, and impermeable surfaces such as concrete and asphalt increasingly replace soil and grass, the amount of rainfall that the land can

Ohio counties take lead in study of underground carbon storage  -  04 Aug 2008
The Plain Dealer - cleveland.com,Holes have already been drilled in Belmont County, where a pipe cuts through impermeable top layers and into porous rock below.

Weekend Edition with Rajdeep: What would Gandhi do?  -  04 Aug 2008
IBNLive.com,..."If he were in Ahmedabad now, a Hindu Ahmedabad and a Muslim Ahmedabad could not have been created on such impermeable terms in the first place.

Casio brings outdoor mobile: the G’zOne Boulder with GPS for £60  -  Aug 1, 2008
Idealo Product News,The G’zOne Boulder is actually made from plastic, but the electronic inside is embedded in a layer of impermeable silicon. Sounds like a mobile for the more

Anarchists' deal: No DNC protests if Denver pays community  -  Jul 29, 2008
Denver Post,City officials have said the ordinance is aimed at items protesters link themselves with, such as chains and impermeable pipes, that make it difficult for

Liquor common sense  -  Jul 20, 2008
Salt Lake Tribune,...what and how customers can eat and drink in various sections to comply with Utah's liquor laws (“How impermeable should those nebulous 'curtains' be?

Niki Ghazian New Cristiano Ronaldo Girl?  -  Jul 26, 2008
Gambling911.com,..."I mean he (Cristiano) doesn't even need to hire security because at all times he is surrounded by an impermeable threshold of women," the ravishing beauty

Commission urges solution to soil degradation  -  Jul 23, 2008
EurActiv,Sealing – an area of soil surface covered by an impermeable material such as concrete – was highlighted as a particularly troublesome issue,

EarthTalk: The lowdown on plug-in hybrids; ecofriendly roofs  -  Aug 1, 2008
Christian Science Monitor,A: Most roofs are designed to shed rain and so are hard and impermeable. As a result, rainwater runs off, collecting impurities on its way to municipal

NEW TECHNOLOGY  -  Jul 16, 2008
Houghton Lake resorterDave Wakefield said the dam, which is made of reinforced mesh tubing, is filled with water to create impermeable walls, allowing water to be pumped .

Regeneration plan proposed for Borough Market  -  Jul 8, 2008
Building.co.uk,Ken Greig, a director at the practice, said: “There are many lost and inaccessible corners tucked away in this area, largely impermeable, overlooked or

City Council to tackle lengthy agenda  -  Jul 14, 2008
Fall River Herald News,The council is expected to do a first reading on the newly combined fee, which includes commercial charges based on square footage of impermeable surfaces,

Explain floods: What's up with infrastructure?  -  Jul 12, 2008
El Paso Times,It was generally believed that our stormwater system was inadequate to handle the downward flow of water caused by new pavement and water-impermeable areas

Click on photo to enlarge  -  Jul 29, 2008
Daily Journal,Mixing prescription drugs with an undesirable substance, such as used coffee grounds or kitty litter, and putting them in impermeable, non-descript

Neighbors unhappy over Pilgrim's landfill dumping  -  Aug 2, 2008
Mount Pleasant Daily Tribune,He said the clay is impermeable. TCEQ will continue to investigate any complaints, Clawson said. Thompson and Willette said they are glad the company is

Bubbles Go Nano  -  Jul 7, 2008
LiveScience.com,...sucrose stearate, and water, Harvard researchers can crystallize this outer layer to form nearly impermeable shells over the bubble surfaces.

Draft zoning measure assailed  -  Aug 1, 2008
Catskill Daily Mail,...n 1-RA - Rural/Agricultural District zoning, and the document notes that most of the town is rural in character, where the soil is impermeable where public

Intimations of a recovery  -  Jul 29, 2008
Indian Express,But post-2002, these possibilities appeared distant and the divisions appeared impermeable. The non-availability of justice, even in its most elementary

Groups Work to Counter EPA’s Anti-Pond Stance  -  Aug 1, 2008
PetProductNews.com,...parts of the country may not have the legal rights to use water from springs or streams on their land) and adding information about impermeable liners.

Neighbors warm to sports complex plan for chemical site  -  Aug 1, 2008
Norwalk Advocate,Quinn said that site would be monitored by the state Department of Environmental Protection and that an impermeable cap would be placed over contaminated

Citizen Expert May Have Pothole Solution  -  Jul 31, 2008
City Watch,These included the use of reinforcing fibers in the asphalt-aggregate mix; fabrics to better distribute loads; water-impermeable membranes;

Protecting the earth from ourselves  -  Jul 31, 2008
The National,At the base of most modern landfill sites, however, a special impermeable lining above the earth prevents trash from reaching the ground.

Sustainable soil management 'could cut costs'  -  Jul 31, 2008
Environmental Data Interactive,These include spillage contamination, chemical use and the impact of sealing soils with impermeable materials affecting its ability to store and filter

Full Text  -  Jul 17, 2008
Science Magazine (subscription)Thus, the best preservation is expected from relatively impermeable sediments that have not been buried deeply or exposed to high temperatures.

Govt plans to utilise 6.30 million hectare salinity affected areas  -  Jul 23, 2008
Daily Times,1.85 million hectare was permeable saline-sodic, 1.02 million hectare was impermeable saline-sodic and 0.028 million hectare was sodic in nature.

EU deal could leave contaminated soil at hospitals, schools  -  Jul 30, 2008
EUobserver.com,This occurs when soils are covered - or "sealed" - by an impermeable substance such as concrete or tarmac, as when building a road, a building or a car park

Falk's law  -  Jul 23, 2008
Jerusalem Post,Not impermeable to awareness of this absurd state of affairs, the Human Rights Council itself recently proposed reform. Outgoing Council president, Romanian

Protecting Workers from the Effects of Heat  -  Jul 10, 2008
CCHMonitor workers who are at risk of heat stress, such as those wearing semi-permeable or impermeable clothing when the temperature exceeds 70 degrees F,

Ramapo landfill targeted for residential development  -  Jul 29, 2008
Lower Hudson Journal news,The landfill was capped with a soil-covered, impermeable liner in 1997. Two years later, Hurricane Floyd damaged the cover, as well as a drainage system

In your neighborhood  -  Jul 29, 2008
The Columbian,The couple had about 100 visitors to their unique garden in downtown Ridgefield, which features no lawn, no impermeable surfaces and two rain gardens that

Prehistoric footprints stir fresh controversy  -  Jul 21, 2008
The Citizen Daily,The original track was covered by fine silicone rubber which made it impermeable to water and other materials. A copy of the original cast is on display at

The Shampoo Economy  -  Jul 21, 2008
Yahoo! NewsYOYO economics -- the "you're on your own" market fundamentalism that has a) dominated policy makers thinking and b) is impermeable to empirical facts

Tossing Mullet  -  Jul 29, 2008
Lagniappe,The exposed and erodible red clay soils are at least covered with impermeable concrete, asphalt and turf that can’t wash into Mobile Bay.

Ninemile Valley creek work called a model  -  Jul 29, 2008
The Missoulian,It is an underground sheet of impermeable fabric that forces the stream to rise through the cobbles and return to its natural run on the surface.

Clemson and local communities join forces to tackle stormwater ...  -  Jul 29, 2008
Clemson University,As the Lowcountry adds people, businesses and industry, more impermeable surfaces are added in the form of rooftops, parking lots, driveways and roads.

Producing Pinedale with a minimal footprint  -  Jul 29, 2008
Petroleum Economist,But these deposits are trapped 7000 to 14000 feet underground in tight gas sands – relatively small, stacked, unconnected pockets of almost impermeable rock

Better soil management could cut costs for construction industry  -  Jul 29, 2008
Media Newswire (press release),For example, soil can be contaminated by spillage or use of chemicals, or it can be ‘sealed’ – covered with an impermeable material – which will affect its

Landslide threat hangs over many of Scotland’s most important roads  -  Jul 19, 2008
Sunday Herald,If they are underlain by rock or some other impermeable barrier, the water may have no escape and can literally liquify the ground.

Membranes protect against damp in offshore applications  -  Jul 29, 2008
Oil & Gas Engineer Magazine,Furthermore, it has excellent impact and abrasive resistance, is impermeable to water and can easily be used within a relatively wide temperature range.

FRANCE: ANOTHER RADIOACTIVE LEAK IN THE SOUTH-EAST  -  Jul 18, 2008
Agenzia Giornalistica Italia,...causing no danger of contamination of the waters since in the region the "terrain is strongly impermeable", and "the groundwater layer is too deep";

Cutting edge, cutting costs?  -  Jul 28, 2008
Norman Transcript,ODOT installed both in a 250-foot test section of Timberdell Road, between Asp and Jenkins Avenues, along with a portion of the normal impermeable road base

Vangold Provides Armenia Oil Project Update  -  Jul 17, 2008
FOXBusinessThe Sarmatian regional impermeable seal is 1200 - 1500 meters deeper here than in the Gavar-Noraduz area to the east, inferring the presence of a

Orthovita Schedules Second Quarter 2008 Financial Results ...  -  Jul 28, 2008
Trading Markets (press release),...use of autograft or cadaver-based bone material, and VITAGEL(R) Surgical Hemostat, which is an adherent matrix and an impermeable barrier to blood flow.

Robert M. Thorson  -  Jul 16, 2008
Hartford Courant,No geologist I know would invest in a house built on the edge of a gravity slope composed of loose sand deposited above an impermeable layer next to a

Victoria Summerley: City Life  -  Jul 15, 2008
Independent,The latest victims of the desire to wrap our homes in some sort of impermeable bubble are house martins, whose numbers are down by 20 per cent this year,

Is there a pond in your future?  -  Jul 28, 2008
Zanesville Times Recorder,Many soils in Muskingum County are dominated by silts, which do not compact well enough to make an impermeable dam. The pond is expected to hold water and

Stormwater, and cash, down the drain  -  Jul 28, 2008
Bennington Banner,How much more of value could be gained by imposing stormwater utility charges on owners of impermeable driveways, parking lots, roofs, streets, and highways

Scientists Map Out "Dream Reservoir" for CO2 Storage  -  Jul 14, 2008
Wired NewsSecond, the impermeable sediment cap on the permeable basalt reservoir is hundreds of feet thick, creating an effective seal for the compressed CO2.

Oilsands threaten groundwater  -  Jul 27, 2008
Edmonton Journal,An impermeable layer of shale sits between the bitumen and the aquifer layers, but if the steam chambers blew out, the water could be contaminated,

Container Gardens Have Their Own Needs  -  Jul 9, 2008
New York Times,Especially if you live in an urban setting with impermeable surfaces, every time you water, a large portion of what you put into your potted garden flows

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