Sentence examples for outfall sewer from inspiring English sources

1858 | The Northern Outfall Sewer was constructed.

Next we headed upstream, up the Northern Outfall Sewer to the Abbey Mills Pumping Station.

We strode along the outfall sewer, latter-day Knights of the Round Table, hoping that, like Sir Perceval, we too could restore the environmental and economic health of the nation through our Walk of Transition.

Then I followed the elevated Greenway – built along the earthworks containing the Northern Outfall Sewer – for five hard final miles to Beckton Park, where the end of my walk was almost in sight.

At high tides, the low headroom of the Northern Outfall Sewer aqueduct prevented access to the southern reaches of the system, and to allow access City Mill Lock was constructed near Blaker Road.

Crossing the Back Rivers by a series of low-level bridges is the Northern Outfall Sewer which leads to the Abbey Mill Pumping Station, both of which were designed by Joseph Bazalgette in the 1860s.

However, the branch sewer lines, main sewers, trunk sewers, pumping stations, treatment plant and outfall sewers are in general the main components of an urban wastewater collection, treatment and disposal systems.

The pelicans were feeding on small, DDT-contaminated fish that picked up the pesticide as it drifted to the surface near the sewer outfall.

But city officials do not anticipate that the mussels will be fit for human consumption, especially since the bed sits so close to a sewer outfall.

A $28 million replenishment project begun by the state in 1999, covering a two-mile stretch from Asbury Park to Avon-by-the-Sea, has only the extension of sewer outfall pipes and jetties to be completed.

A survey by the United State Geological Survey in 1992 and 1993 found DDT-contaminated sediment from about two inches to two feet thick, with the highest concentration in a three-square-mile band near the sewer outfall pipes.