Sentence examples for sewer discharge from inspiring English sources

Plants reduce sewer discharge in two ways.

The wastewater from the moored vessels combined with leaked sewer discharge and storm drain runoff to create unsanitary living conditions.

"Over time it was easier to face the risk of sewer discharge than the reality of building a big plant in the face of community opposition," said Christopher Ward, commissioner of the Department of Environmental Protection.

In recent years there is the realization that security of water supply, drought, scarcity of water and increased costs for potable water and sewer discharge are forcing some companies to rethink this minimalist strategy.

The decomposition of the sewer discharge shows that, on an annual basis, infiltration in the sewer network accounts for 30% of the total discharge and runoff due to rainwater to about 40% (the remaining being composed of the waste water discharge).

Farm animal waste runoff and sewer discharges are main sources of pollution, he said.

The agency is also on the lookout for higher levels of bacteria and nutrients from sewer discharges.

"New Jersey must do better," he said, after promising to impose stricter limits on industrial and sewer discharges, as well as on pollution from septic systems, roads and agricultural and residential runoff.

He noted that the administration had already committed $150 million to reducing odors and preventing sewer discharges and had shared the cost of a feasibility study for an environmental restoration project by the Army Corps of Engineers.

In rainy seasons, it could store and treat extra urban sewer discharges and road surface runoff.

But by applying GE's advanced water-treatment chemical technology to the plant's cooling towers, the factory has been able to use re-use its water to a much greater degree - saving some 7.4 million gallons of water and reducing sewer discharges by the same amount.