Sweet clover is more tolerant of poor drainage, overflow, and seepageconditions than alfalfa.
The craters of volcanic mountains are natural basins in which surface waters are certain to be collected, provided only the supply is sufficient and seepage into the loose materials is not excessive.
Lakes require for their existence a basin within which water may be impounded, and a supply of water more than sufficient to meet the losses fromseepage and evaporation.
In time this seepage found its way under the bottom of the reservoir, softening the ground and producing a slight settlement which caused the crack in the floor.
When theseepage had closed, the cylinders were entirely closed except at the surface.
Cylinders of galvanized iron, 6 feet long, were filled with soil as nearly as possible in its natural position and condition Water was added until seepage began, after which the excess was allowed to drain away.
While it is not generally understood, this source of loss is, in districts where dry-farming is properly carried on, very much larger than that resulting either from seepage or from direct evaporation.
This state of affairs occurs also on sloping uplands which are kept wet by spring water or by seepage water from higher lands.
Seepage dripped at intervals, flying into their faces like spray as they dashed through it.
Under the rays of the carbides, they could see that the track here was in fairly good condition; the only moisture being that of a natural seepage which counted for little.
Where springs and seepage occur together, an olive grove or a garden marks the spot, a corral or two and a mud or stone or reed hut is near by, and there is a tiny oasis.
There is a thin crevice vegetation that outlines the joint pattern where seepage supplies the venturesome roots with moisture.
Springs increase in number and size; likewise belts of seepage make their appearance.
On the other hand, if such pervious deposits possess other outlets outside of the stream channel and drainage area, they may result in the withdrawal of more or less of the seepage waters entirely from the ultimate flow of the stream.
In still other cases the seepagemay have been in existence for such a long time as to exhaust the reservoir.
Plenty of it, from seepage of the ocean downward through cracks in the ocean floor.
Seepage filled this hole, and into it he piled a number of green aspen chunks and cuttings, a meagre food-supply for the long, cold winter that followed.
For one hundred and forty-seven feet it ran through an approximately level stretch of the valley, and seepage filled it with water.
Seepage and overflow from the ponds above filled and flowed slowly through it and out at the farther end, where it swept down the long slide into the big pond.
My right arm is bruised due to some seepage during the injection; it is a small price to pay to allow my left arm free for both the 6th injection and blood test.
Also concealed beneath my gown was a tube connected to a small bag taped to my skin in which the seepage near the wound would accumulate; called a "drain.
Moving to the power plant he examined the reactor's cover and seals for seepage and the thruster nozzles and gimbals for cracks and wear.
They realized that they might face serious seepage from their suits as soon as they entered the vacuum of space.
I'll guarantee the seepage to last for a month, even if he has the well bailed out every day, and the creek will carry oil for half a mile.
Nelson had been fooled by a showing of oil in an ordinary farm well, and by a generous seepage into a running stream some distance away.
The car was waiting its turn to cross a tiny toll bridge spanning a sluggish creek, the bed of which ran seepage oil from the wells beyond, when the driver grumbled aloud: "Four bits to cross a forty-foot bridge.
The creek seepage had turned out to be equally counterfeit, but even more ingeniously contrived.
They said that what little seepage there would be would not hurt anything; the dam answered by showing no seepage at all.
In San Antonio Canyon many boylii were trapped beneath logs and dense vegetation, and on wet seepage slopes adjacent to the creek.
In a small draw one-half mile east of the mouth of Thompson Canyon two raccoons were trapped although the only water was a series of small, disconnected seepagepools beneath the valley oaks.
The water from wells is often polluted by seepage through the earth from sources that might be prevented.
In this well, the curbing C is of heavy concrete that extends above the natural surface of the ground, to prevent the entrance of surface water, and that fromseepage through the upper stratum of the soil.
Where the character of the soil is such that the seepage is slow and the water does not flow into the well as fast as the pump will remove it, the well must contain a considerable volume to supply the period of greatest demand.
It is likewise of the first importance to have the walls of the well curbed to a sufficient depth to prevent the possibility of seepage from the surface.
A sensitiveseepage of blood rushed over Madam Moores's nervous face, stinging it.
A red seepage of blood flooded her face; her bosom rose and fell.
He remembered the excitement that had so shaken him upon the discovery of this supposed seepage two days previously--he remembered ironically the visions it had aroused in his brain.
On the other hand, the seepagemay be all there is.
It must come from some very tiny surface seepage close at hand, that was lost in the bayou almost as rapidly as it came from the earth-depths.
Merely that I planted that oil seepage myself--or had it done by men I could trust," said Jachin Fell, calmly.
The wells were only about twenty feet deep; but by drawing the water as fast as the seepage accumulated, each was capable of watering several hundred head of cattle daily.
Convinced that to sink other wells on the mesas would be fruitless, the foreman decided to dig a number of shallow ones in the bed of the river, in the hope of catching seepage water.
The forest is so large a reservoir that it rarely overflows, and seepage from it is so slow that it seldom goes dry.
Seepage and overflow water from the ponds above filled and flowed slowly through it and out at the farther end, where it swept down the long slide into the big pond.
