Sentence examples for storm overflow from inspiring English sources

To make matters worse, many of the pipes that handle storm overflow also handle raw sewage.

(Both Trump and the city say the odor might be caused by the river, the storm overflow system or geese droppings).

Yorkshire Water will collect sediment and rock samples across Bridlington and Scarborough as it seeks to install three storm overflow pipes.

Field surveys were designed to examine the effects of sewage contamination from storm overflow effluent on faecal coliform and Escherichia coli concentrations in the flesh of wild mussels (Mytilus edulis).

Mr. Campbell and his staff have looked at amending rules concerning freshwater wetlands, flood hazards, water allocations for towns and developments, building near streams and the discharge of wastewater and storm overflows, among other issues.

In addition, the recently adopted Water Framework Directive (WFD) will have an additional impact on the control of urban pollution in particular related to storm overflows.

They are widely used in hydraulics, environmental and irrigation engineering for controlling and directing flow of water in irrigation drainage systems, waste water channels, drainage canal systems, diverting excess water into relief channels for flood-protection works, and as storm overflows from urban sewage systems.

The Superfund designation does not address the primary source of pollution in the Gowanus Canal: combined sewer overflows, which occur when storm sewers overflow during heavy rainfalls and combine with the sanitary sewers, pouring 300 million gallons of raw sewage into the canal every year.

Since heavy rainfalls occurred just shortly before this sampling event, there is a possibility of toxic input through untreated effluents of the STP storm water overflow and through urban runoff as well [37].

The four-metre-deep concrete basin, which collects storm water overflow, was emptied to ensure no more migrants were inside.

As for the rat and the syringe, he said that storm drains overflow in heavy rains, and occasionally the debris of eight million winds up in the ocean, which gradually returns it to Gotham's sands.