Sentence examples for overflow pipes from inspiring English sources

Now the sewer commission dogged down the overflow pipes, to prevent the rising river from following those passageways into town.

When treatment plants are swamped, the excess spills from 490 overflow pipes throughout the city's five boroughs.

But during heavy rainstorms, the treatment plants reach capacity and shut off access, diverting the waste to 689 overflow pipes that discharge directly into area waterways.

After a very heavy rain, if overflow pipes become congested, sewage backs up into basements or is released with the rainwater into the Chicago River — an emergency response that has attracted the scrutiny of the Environmental Protection Agency.

Yorkshire Water will collect sediment and rock samples across Bridlington and Scarborough as it seeks to install three storm overflow pipes.

But the Marine Conservation Society is warning that heavy rains are washing raw sewage from overflow pipes and pollution from towns and rural areas to bathing areas.

Discharge of the roasted calcines is through a side overflow pipe.

These tubes, the society says, can be made out of 4cm-diameter plastic overflow pipe from DIY shops.

The overflow pipe would no longer be protected by the Great Highway; instead, workers would build a low wall scarcely higher than the pipe itself, topped by a cobblestone berm that would slope down toward the surf.

An overflow pipe is provided in the bottom part to detect any leakage.

The overflow pipe has an elongation quantity in the straight pipe of hydrocyclone, which disturbs the flow field.