Sentence examples for an outfall from inspiring English sources

Most were small, but some were not: in 1996, 400 gallons of petroleum spilled into an outfall that discharges into the reservoir; in 1990, a 20,000-gallon underground storage tank was found to be leaking.

While sewage kills off all life in the waters immediately next to an outfall pipe, further away from the pipe it may boost the populations of some marine creatures, and therefore in the fish and birds that feed on them.Anglers on the River Trent have tried, so far in vain, to stop further cuts in the sewage entering the river.

The laboratory waste, which contained "very low levels of radioactivity" went into a disused drainage system that has an outfall at sea.

At Hull, an outfall sluice was constructed, and the drain passed through tunnels under eleven waterways, including the Beverley Beck.

It then is diverted completely underground and its channel winds to an outfall at Main Beach, one of the most popular beaches in Laguna Beach.

The first was an outfall at a lower level, which would involve hugh expense in its construction, and the second, favoured by Jessop and Rennie, was the provision of steam pumping engines at Pode Hole.

Correlations between the spatial distribution of soft-sediment assemblages and environmental variables were evaluated at a number of control and potentially impacted locations (waste dumps, a sewage outfall and a wharf) at Casey Station, East Antarctica.

"Just as putting in a sewage outfall or drilling an oil well, there's an environmental question to be asked," Dr. Brewer said, "and people should do it in an objective way".

In contrast, adding naphthalene to sediments from nearest to an industrial outfall (station 4) inhibited bacterial production to a lesser extent (25 34% at 25 μg addition) and even showed some stimulation of production (−32%, Table  3).> -wrap-foot> Bacterial production (average (AVG) and standard deviation (SD)) for sediment samples (μg kg−1 day−1) with naphthalene added (μg).

This paper also presents an application of the dilution method to flow rate measurement of an industrial outfall and the uncertainty analysis associated with the obtained values.

Numerous channels from the surrounding polders drain into the river, and sluices at Nieuwpoort regulate its depth, both for an adequate outfall and for navigation.