Sentence examples for sewage runoff from inspiring English sources

"The fire department comes out there and hoses it off in the sewage runoff".

The heavy minerals were derived from imported construction rocks, and the organic material was derived from increased sewage runoff from the booming city.

By the 1990s, five resorts pocked the island, and clumsy divers and sewage runoff threatened to wreak havoc on the corals and marine life.

Ten years ago, bathers in the James River, which wends through this old Southern city, wore ear and nose plugs to stave off infections from sewage runoff.

PAGE 18 RIVER REVIVAL IN RICHMOND Ten years ago, bathers in the James River, which wends through Richmond, Va., wore ear and nose plugs to stave off infections from sewage runoff.

THE East River is still polluted, from sewage runoff and a long-ago oil spill, according to the city's Department of Environmental Protection, so it is probably not quite fit yet for doing the backstroke.

The main natural sources of metals into the aquatic system are the weathering of soils and rocks and precipitation; or from anthropogenic activities such as industrial, domestic, and urban sewage runoffs (Rippey 1982; Caccia and Millero 2003; Du Laing et al. 2008; Nduka and Orisakwe 2009; Sundaray et al. 2012).

The Gowanus is cleaner today than in previous decades, but still bedeviled by sewage overflow and runoff from local industrial plants.

Natural waters can become contaminated with fecal and other germs by sewage overflow, storm water runoff, boating wastes and septic systems that malfunction.

The river was polluted by industrial waste, urban runoff, and sewage overflow.

During these extreme events, manure runoff or sewage overflow can contaminate watersheds, groundwater, or water treatment plants and distribution systems (Clark et al., 2003; Rechenburg and Kistemann, 2009; Semenza et al., 1998).