Sentence examples for water overwhelm from inspiring English sources

Discharges are common in places like New York City, where pipes that carry sewage and storm water overwhelm the city's wastewater treatment plants during rains, requiring the release of billions of gallons of polluted water into waterways.

Large pools of swirling dirty water overwhelmed unpaved roads.

Long before the water overwhelms Venice, however, it could die of tourism.

That's when I know the Chesapeake Bay will be clobbered yet again, with wind and water overwhelming the strip of small fragile barrier islands that hug the coast.

Repairing the ecosystem, where fresh and salt water, overwhelmed by agricultural runoff and invasive species, push against each other in a perpetual dance, has been made a political priority.

The debris plunged into the river, and a great mass of water "overwhelmed with a sudden and violent flood all that was on the banks as far as the city of Geneva," more than 40 miles across the lake.

Hebden Bridge in West Yorkshire flooded first when the river Calder burst its banks in June and then equally disastrously three weeks later when surface water overwhelmed the drainage system.

Residents of Aramon said they became aware of danger only when the church bells began to ring frantically on Monday night, about an hour before water overwhelmed the village.

The three-minute procedure, conducted on a chilly morning this month in an airport hangar not far from West Virginia University, was the latest test of a device that may someday help guard real tunnels during disasters — whether a terrorist strike or a storm like Hurricane Sandy, whose wind-driven surge of water overwhelmed New York City's subway system, shutting it down for days.

Another is hoisted aloft on an upside-down crucifix before a torrent of water overwhelms him.

Beef farmer James Winslade has been forced to move his 550 cattle to Sedgemoor market, five miles away, as water overwhelmed his land.