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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 ...
Stormwater, also written storm water, is water that originates from precipitation (storm), including heavy rain and meltwater from hail and snow. Stormwater can soak into the soil (infiltrate) and become groundwater, be stored on depressed land surface in ponds and puddles, evaporate back into the atmosphere, or contribute to surface runoff.
The storm continued its way towards Central Vietnam after crossing the Philippines. Etau killed two people in Quảng Nam and Bình Định and damaged 31 houses when it made landfall in central Vietnam on 10 November. [54] The storm produced over 250 mm (9.8 in) of rain in the provinces of Bình Định, Khánh Hòa, and Phú Yên. [55]
Drainage. High-density polyethylene pipe installation in a storm drain project, Mexico. Drainage is the natural or artificial removal of a surface's water and sub-surface water from an area with excess water. The internal drainage of most agricultural soils can prevent severe waterlogging (anaerobic conditions that harm root growth), but many ...
Spratly Island is shaped like an isosceles triangle. According to a document published by the Political Department of Vietnam's Navy Command, the island is 630 metres (2,070 ft) in length, up to 300 metres (980 ft) in width and has an area of 0.15 square kilometres (37 acres) [2] while several foreign documents often use a slightly smaller ...
Website. monre.gov.vn. The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MONRE, Vietnamese: Bộ Tài nguyên và Môi trường) is a government ministry in Vietnam responsible for: land, water resources; mineral resources, geology; environment; hydrometeorology; climate change; surveying and mapping; management of the islands and the sea.
Japanese Edo (original) The Japanese Bridge (Vietnamese: Chùa Cầu, lit. Pagoda Bridge) is a footbridge with a temple atop, located in Hội An, Quảng Nam Province, Vietnam. It dates from the late 16th century by Japanese merchantmen but successive renovations and repairs on the bridge have occurred throughout the period to the modern day.
The 1999 Vietnamese floods occurred in late October 1999 when Vietnam experienced the worst flooding in forty years. Tropical Storm No. 9 (also known as Tropical Storm Eve) first appeared in heavy rain from 18 to 20 October, hitting the central provinces of Quang Binh, Quang Tri, Thua Thien Hue, Danang, Quang Nam in Vietnam. [1]