"excess" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Crops contain high concentrations of Nitrate when excess fertilizer is used.
- Also, excess fertilizer increases run-off (which is not beneficial to waterways) as the nutrients are not readily absorbed.
- Of particular concern are hazardous waste dumps and landfills, and, in agriculture, excess fertilizer, improperly stored animal manure, and biocides (e.g. pesticides, fungicides, insecticides and herbicides).
- They say that this sort of application economy goes a long way toward lawn health - but also keeps excess fertilizer out of the water system since less is lost to the environment through runoff.
- Causes include water pollution from sewage or runoff from farms (carrying excess agricultural fertilizer).
- Cities and industrial sites use rivers as sewers; excess fertilizer and pesticides from farms leach into canals and streams.
- Switch grass cleans water as well as air; its wide-spreading roots filter out pesticides, herbicides and excess fertilizer before they reach the waterways.
- Nitrates enter the stream system from excess fertilizers applied to land uses in the drainage basin and may also be present in septic wastes improperly entering the creek.
- In most cases of excess nitrate concentrations in aquatic systems, the primary source is surface runoff from agricultural or landscaped areas that have received excess nitrate fertilizer.
- This has a direct effect on soil particles, along with excess fertilizers and other chemicals, washing into local waterways, damaging water quality and harming aquatic life.
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