Sentence examples for pipes overflow from inspiring English sources

When those pipes overflow, the combined liquid dumps into the rivers.

If an item breaks in the property, i.e., the electrics go or the pipes overflow, ensure you fulfil your maintenance responsibilities, call in the appropriate contractor and repair the problem fast.

The three categories of water damages: Clean water or White water: This category of water does not pose a threat to people and sources could include water-supply pipes, domestic piping overflows or blockages or malfunctions of electronic equipment.

It has a flow-in pipe and overflow pipe, symmetrically structured for both ends to provide installation with convenience.

In this paper, the use of 3D computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is investigated for studying flow, sedimentation, and solids separation in a tank equipped with one inlet pipe and two outlets (outlet pipe and overflow weir).

The dusty, narrow streets are riddled with potholes, scrawny dogs fight over the mounds of rubbish on street corners and burst sewerage pipes and overflowing drains add to the grim picture here.

Shakespeare's The Tempest opens with a violent storm (thunder was often created by rumbling a cannonball through a pipe) and overflows with instrumental and sung music.

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.