Over five and a half million feet of boom has been laid across the water to block and absorb the approaching oil.
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Gates have been installed at critical canals to help block water from entering the city during storm surges.
River tribes are worried that the dams will block water ways and dry up the river beds they depend on for travel and fishing.
This 8, 000-sq ft home is located a block from the water making it easy for Kim and Kris to enjoy nightly strolls on the beach.
Moreover, some who grasp the environmental aspects of water misuse nonetheless have a mental block on invoking the market as a remedy.
Mr. Savoni and others devised a way to push the water through the filter, a block of carbon encased in plastic, more swiftly.
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Water restrictions at a Lincoln sheltered housing block where Legionella bacteria was found have begun to be lifted.
But the state that lost water, whichever it was, would inevitably block a new deal.
An environmental health inspection is to be carried out at a Leeds apartment block where residents have been without water for six days.
Once the trees were gone and the debris cleared, "the water went down and the streets were cleared block after block after block, " he said.
With the support of smaller countries such as Greece and Portugal, Britain and France are likely to try to block the directive or at least to water it down.
It has been reported that landowners are preparing to stop the Ministry of Defence using their land for training, block the siting of electricity pylons and stop water companies using their land to spread sewage.
Outside the cell block, you will notice faint graffiti on the water tower that reads "This is Indian Land".
Water restrictions will remain in place at a Lincoln sheltered housing block where Legionella bacteria was found, for at least another three days.
One proposal: a set of giant movable gates to be built on the land separating Lake Pontchartrain from the Gulf that when closed could block tidal surges, and when open, improve water flow.
More than 40 million litres (8.7m gallons) of water has been pumped out of a Tyneside estate where flooding left a block of flats near collapse.
Mr. DANIEL: Once the movement started and the water pressures developed, there was enough force then just to cause an entire block to slide tens of feet and to breach the levee.
It's not unprecedented, and there's no current threat to water supplies, but officials are prepared to start building an underwater barrier to block the denser saltwater from moving further upstream, Corps spokesman Ricky Boyett said Friday.
When the water levels rise, air will be pumped into the barriers raising them up to block the tidal flow and protect the city from flooding.
In a cover letter, NMFS regional administrator John Bullard cautioned that the study applies only to the way the Indian Point reactors currently operate, using the screens to block fish from being drawn into the plant with the millions of gallons of river water used for cooling.
On block after block, there are structures that look pretty much the same as they did after the water receded.
Ostensibly, Obama made the decision to block the pipeline because of concern over contamination of the Ogallala Reservoir, a vast underground water source that makes much of Midwestern agriculture possible.
Still on the block, some analysts say, are GE's appliance, lighting, industrial controls and water chemicals businesses.
The walls block wetlands and beaches from expanding inland, so with a wall on one side and encroaching water on the other, in the end, the wetlands disappear.
Deepwater Horizon was drilling for BP on part of the Mississippi Canyon Block 252 known as the Macondo prospect, in 1, 500m (5, 000ft) of water.
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