Sentence examples for rain overflow from inspiring English sources

Thus the project SchussenAktivplus focuses on technologies capable to reduce the release of micropollutants and potentially pathogenic bacteria from sewage treatment plants and rain overflow basins into surface waters.

Each trap consisted of a 750 ml plastic cup (12 cm surface diameter) and a plastic cover to prevent rain overflow.

At least 300 residents of Miami, Okla., fled their homes yesterday as the Neosho River, swollen by persistent rain, overflowed its banks.

AT the end of summer in Montclair, chill rains overflow the gutters and beat down on lawn chairs already folded for another season.

In May record rains overflowed the Cumberland River, flooding large swaths of Nashville.

Since 1957, spring in Texas has also been marked by violent hailstorms, torrential rains, overflowing streams, and rampaging rivers.

JAKARTA, Indonesia, Tuesday, Feb. 6 — Much of this capital city was underwater on Tuesday, and the authorities warned of the possible spread of disease after torrential rains, overflowing rivers and clogged sewers brought widespread flooding over the weekend.

Heavy rains, overflowing latrines and a ceaseless influx of sick and hungry people have conspired to create an epidemiological disaster at the Jamam refugee camp, with death rates now nearly twice the emergency level, said the aid group Doctors Without Borders.

The rains overflowed rivers, canals, and the crater lake of Volcán de Agua, causing widespread landslides.

Days of torrential rains overflowed rivers, causing heavy flooding and landslides, and leaving 109 inhabitants dead and 400,000 displaced.

Then heavy downpours can cause sewers to overflow, and rain runoff washes microbes off farms, lawns, and streets into drinking water supplies.