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    Clean Your Roof

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    If you have a roof with asphalt shingles that is no longer brand new, you should seal your asphalt shingles this fall and make them waterproof. This will extend the life of your asphalt shingles and protect all the layers of your roof from water. Clean Your Roof Before you seal your asphalt shingles, you need to clean your roof. You will need to wait one day in between cleaning your roof and sealing your roof. The first thing you need to do is use a broom to gently brush off any dirt and…

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    Crane's Narrowing Bar

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    Crane’s description of the bar where Pete works subtly highlights the deceptiveness of this bar’s appearance. The words “imitation leather” depict the fake or misleading qualities of the bar. The “massiveness” of the “shining bar” is another deception of appearance as the “mirrors set in the face of the sideboard” make it look larger than actuality. The mirror also “multiplied” the number of “shimmering glasses” giving the feeling of elegance and high quality. However, the glasses were never…

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    Sealcoating Benefits

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    If you just moved into a home with an asphalt driveway, you need to learn how to take care of your new asphalt driveway in order to keep it in great shape for years to come. One of the most common ways to protect an asphalt driveway is by sealcoating it. Here are a few of the top benefits that come along with sealcoating your driveway on a regular basis. Sealcoating Helps Slow Down The Oxidation Process As soon as your asphalt is laid down, the oxidation process starts to occur. Basically, the…

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    “He has slept on the ground; in a sewage culvert, curled up with other migrants; on top of gravestones. Once, on top of a moving train, he grew so hungry that he jumped forward to the first car, leaped off, and raced to pick a pineapple. He was able to reboard one of the train’s last cars. Another time, he had gone two days without water. His throat felt as if it was swelling shut. There were no houses in sight. He found a small cattle trough. It was frothy with cow spit. Under the froth was…

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    more than 100 years ago, its surface drainage system consists of a single surface drainage channel at its downstream basin (Smith et. al., 2005). Whole watershed comprises of about 98% of medium residential settlement and 2% of forest and woody wetlands. Moores Run is accompanied by two USGS stream flow gaging stations; USGS 01585230 at Radecke Avenue and USGS 01585225 at a tributary of Moores Run, near Todd Avenue (Figure 1). Major source of Moores Run flow is the surface run-off during storms.…

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    three premises that are believed to be fundamental to achieving sustainable stormwater management. Premise 1: Sustainable urban stormwater management maintains ecological structure and function of receiving water bodies. As stormwater from impervious surfaces is a physical impact to streams and transports pollutants from landscapes, the protection and restoration of natural hydrologic regimes necessary and critical to sustainable management of stormwater runoff in urban landscapes (Roy et al.,…

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    Applications to impervious surfaces ( walkways, driveways, concrete patios etc), from which pyrethroids most readily run off have been curtailed, and the areas to which pyrethroids can be applied when doing perimeter barrier treatments around structures have been limited (Brant…

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    Cloud Watershed Analysis

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    Rain gardens and bioswales are examples of detention ponds. Rain gardens are shallow, vegetated basins that are frequently installed adjacent to impermeable surfaces such as roads, sidewalks, and parking lots. A runoff inlet allows the stormwater to pool in the rain garden and then either slowly infiltrate into the ground or be absorbed by the vegetation (Yang, Dick, McCoy, Phelan, & Grewal, 2013). Bioswales…

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    the volume of water is unable to seep in to the ground efficiently and runoff is created. Runoff is when the water travels across the ground surface and flows in to storm drains, streams, or other direct routes to significant water sources. As researchers May, Horner, Karr, Mar, and Welch state, urban development increases the amount of impervious surfaces which, while it does not contribute to pollution, alters the physical behavior of water systems (May, Horner, Karr, Mar, & Welch, 1997).…

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    implemented and the new measures to be developed are meant to control causative factors like uncontrolled urban sprawl, loss of natural drainage, the inadequacy of the storm water drainage system, lack of maintenance of existing systems, increase in impervious surfaces and lack of coordination between stakeholders involved in implementing the measures. The measures could be broadly classified into structural and nonstructural measures. These measures include institutional, physical, socio-…

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