Sentence examples for stormwater pipe from inspiring English sources

But in February 2014, a Duke Energy coal ash basin flooded when a stormwater pipe cracked open, dumping 39,000 tons of coal ash into the Dan River.

Buried stormwater pipe networks play a key role in surface drainage systems for urban areas of Australia.

The field investigation revealed that the damage was most likely caused by excessive lawn watering and leaks of sewer pipe and/or stormwater pipe, which resulted in non-uniform soil moisture conditions.

In addition, according to the SWMM modeling analysis, although the stormwater pipe system in the district met only the standard required for 2-year recurrence-interval storms, there would be no local flooding in a 5-year recurrence-interval storm, and the local flooding situation would not be serious even when a 20-year recurrence-interval storm occurred.

While there's lots of finger-pointing, with subpoenas flying and political maneuverings -- and now concern that a second stormwater pipe may be leaking -- the environmental impacts have yet to be fully understood.

"I think any child who survives any amount of hours — and it sounds like it was at least four to five hours — in a stormwater pipe on days two or three after birth is a miracle.

For example, a key part of a recent Doherty recovery plan for the city centred on the $5.4m sale of the city's stormwater pipes.

The deterioration of stormwater pipes is commonly graded into structural and serviceability condition using CCTV inspection data in order to recognize two different deterioration processes and consequences.

These approaches mainly included bioretention (which captured nearly 85th percentile volume of the annual runoff in the site, nearly 5.4 × 105 m3 annually), swales (which functioned as a substitute for traditional stormwater pipes), waterscapes, and stormwater wetlands.

There is a need for assessment of uncertainties and hence effects on reliability of design and management of stormwater pipes due to the prevalence of urban floods trigged by modification of land cover and high precipitation intensities respectively due to increasing urbanization and changing climate.

In the United Kingdom, pipes carrying wastewater and sewage from home toilets, showers, and laundry machines are often incorrectly connected to stormwater pipes that discharge directly to nearby streams.