The water-supply of the city is taken from a small stream, Six Mile Creek, which is a surface water with a drainage area of about 46 square miles.
The well in question is laid up with stone and cement and was supposed to be tight and impervious to surface water contamination.
Surface water, on the other hand, may contain two or three hundred without being necessarily bad, the types of bacteria being harmless.
Such pollution applies only to surface water, such as brooks or lakes, and the best method of detecting and evaluating this pollution is to make a careful inspection of the watershed.
It had not yet been recognised how country destitute of surface water could be utilised.
By at least one of these officers it was held, for example, that land, no matter how accessible or good its quality, was only second-class pastoral if destitute of surface water.
This in a country, too, which formerly was almost destitute of surface water.
In many instances, however, I observed that they had been induced to do so, simply by the want of surface water in the immediate neighbourhood of places where they obtained their principal supply of food.
For some days, owing to the pools of surface water left by the recent rain, they had no difficulty in keeping a straightforward course.
On this course he kept to the north of the Hampton Range, and crossed well-grassed country, but destitute of surface water, reaching Eucla on the 2nd July.
His experiences were not unlike those of the other explorers; he had to struggle on against heat, thirst, and spinifex, and found occasional tracts of pastoral land destitute of surface water.
During this stage he kept to the north of the Hampton Range, and through a country well-grassed but destitute of surface water.
For some distance, owing to the pools of surface water left by the recent rain, they had no difficulty in keeping a straightforward course.
There being no surface water, although the ground was so soft that the horses kept bogging up to their bodies, we were forced to retreat five miles to obtain some for them.
Examined a large creek; can find no surface water, but got some by scratching in the sand.
As to surface water, my men have neither the strength nor the appliances for digging.
It was at the same time, however, clear that the country was not favourable for any attempt to penetrate, since there was no surface water.
In Australia, there is no surface water, properly so called, of a permanent description.
We crossed some low sand hills to a swamp in which there was a good deal of surface water, but none of a permanent kind.
In the first case the water is called ground water, in the latter it is known as surface water.
Surface water is more likely to contain suspended matter, with very little of dissolved substances.
It has been argued that surface water will be more readily removed by drains having porous filling.
Catch-water drains, made so as to intercept a flow of surface water, have been in use from immemorial time, and are described by the earliest writers.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "surface water" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
