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  2. Should You Cover Your Outdoor Faucets In The Winter? An ... - AOL

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    If you don’t have the time or funds to buy a cover before a deep freeze, Tuscaloosa Emergency Management Agency suggests a quick DIY method involving rags or t-shirts, plastic bags, and tape.

  3. Putting your garden to bed for the winter: Here's what to know

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    The time you take now will be appreciated by the plants in your garden and will add to your enjoyment come spring. Skip to main content. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: ...

  4. Final cover - Wikipedia

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    Final cover is a multilayered system of various materials which are primarily used to reduce the amount of storm water that will enter a landfill after closing. Proper final cover systems will also minimize the surface water on the liner system, resist erosion due to wind or runoff, control the migrations of landfill gases, and improve aesthetics.

  5. Retention basin - Wikipedia

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    Storm water is typically channeled to a retention basin through a system of street and/or parking lot storm drains, and a network of drain channels or underground pipes.. The basins are designed to allow relatively large flows of water to enter, but discharges to receiving waters are limited by outlet structures that function only during very large storm eve

  6. Arroyo (watercourse) - Wikipedia

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    The Doña Ana County Flood Commission in the U.S. state of New Mexico defines an arroyo as "a watercourse that conducts an intermittent or ephemeral flow, providing primary drainage for an area of land of 40 acres (160,000 m 2) or larger; or a watercourse which would be expected to flow in excess of one hundred cubic feet per second as the result of a 100 year storm event."

  7. Infiltration basin - Wikipedia

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    Recently completed infiltration basin for stormwater collection. An infiltration basin (or recharge basin) is a form of engineered sump [1] or percolation pond [2] that is used to manage stormwater runoff, prevent flooding and downstream erosion, and improve water quality in an adjacent river, stream, lake or bay.

  8. Bioretention - Wikipedia

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    A bioretention cell, also called a rain garden, in the United States. It is designed to treat polluted stormwater runoff from an adjacent parking lot. Plants are in winter dormancy. Bioretention is the process in which contaminants and sedimentation are removed from stormwater runoff. The main objective of the bioretention cell is to attenuate ...

  9. Storm drain - Wikipedia

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    Storm drain grate on a street in Warsaw, Poland Storm drain with its pipe visible beneath it due to construction work. A storm drain, storm sewer (United Kingdom, U.S. and Canada), highway drain, [1] surface water drain/sewer (United Kingdom), or stormwater drain (Australia and New Zealand) is infrastructure designed to drain excess rain and ground water from impervious surfaces such as paved ...