Sentence examples for sewage laws from inspiring English sources

— In 29 years of enforcing sewage laws in Pennsylvania, Jack E. Crislip has never faced violators more adamant, or more pleasant to deal with, than members of the ultraconservative Swartzentruber Amish sect.

Drop City's utopian ideals, however, quickly founder in a host of practical problems like sewage disposal, zoning laws and hassles from the authorities.

In June a posh part of Panama City, where Donald Trump is building a 70-storey hotel and residential complex, was flooded with sewage because planning laws had been ignored.The biggest long-term worry is that the Panama Canal Authority, an autonomous state agency admired for its efficient operation, could be captured by the government and run as a short-term cash-cow.

She completed the most comprehensive water quality survey in the nation, which sparked her state's first water quality laws and sewage treatment, and led the campaign to expose dangerous health conditions in Boston's schools, thus stirring nationwide school reforms.

High levels of BFRs have been reported in sewage [see review by Law et al. (2006a)], and the source of BFRs in the southern part of the study area is most likely local discharges from urban sewage and industrial activity.

But fewer than one in five sewage systems that broke the law were ever fined or otherwise sanctioned by state or federal regulators, the Times analysis shows.

This era saw a Greco-Roman culture prevail with the introduction of Roman law, Roman architecture, sewage systems, many agricultural items and silk.

The Crystal Cruises incident prompted Mr. Simitian, the state senator, to write what are now laws banning the release of sewage, oily bilge or sewage sludge into California waters and prohibiting cruise ships from incinerating garbage within three miles of the state's shore.

A law supposedly to stop sewage being poured directly into rivers was passed in Victorian times, following an incident in 1858 known as the Great Stink of the Thames.

Under federal law, certain basic rules govern sewage treatment plants.

By law, ships can dump treated sewage anywhere.