sewer overflow

collocation in English

meaningsofsewerandoverflow

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sewer
noun[C]
uk
/sʊər/us
/ˈsuː.ɚ/
a large pipe, usually underground, that is used for carrying waste water and human waste away from buildings to a place where they can be safely got ...
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overflow
noun
uk
/ˈəʊ.və.fləʊ/us
/ˈoʊ.vɚ.floʊ/
an amount of liquid or number of people that cannot fit in ...
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(Definition ofsewerandoverflowfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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I should be pleased if every stormseweroverflowwere considered in a similar spirit and either removed, relocated or improved.
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The siting of combinedseweroverflowtanks is subject to local authority planning development control.
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We are anxious about innocent people whose property, through no fault of theirs, is damaged by a burst water main, a collapsing sewer or aseweroverflow.
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During high precipitation periods a sanitaryseweroverflowcan occur, forcing untreated sewage to flow back into the environment.
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Such sanitaryseweroverflowcan mean streets becoming flooded with a mixture of water and sewage, causing a health risk.
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Water quality is further reduced by the use of combinedseweroverflowsystems, in which storm water and raw sewage share pipes.
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After heavy rainfall, however, combined sewers commonly dump untreated sewage into area rivers and tributaries without treatment, in an event called a combinedseweroverflow.
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Such an event is called a sanitaryseweroverflow.
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More significantly, many beaches are a discharge zone for untreated sewage in most underdeveloped countries; even in developed countries beach closure is an occasional circumstance due to sanitaryseweroverflow.
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Infiltration into sewers therefore has an insignificant bearing on such issues as sewage treatment, the operation of combined sewer overflows and flooding from sewers.
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It was said that the storm sewer overflows would work after heavy rain, and retention in the lake would be only one or two days.
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No records are held of the frequency of operation of storm sewer overflows which primarily act as emergency outlets during periods of heavy rainfall.
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Modest improvements could be made to the storm sewer overflows.
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Storm sewer overflows could all be classified and equipped with modern filters and valves.
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No doubt the winter sewage flows emerging through the storm sewer overflows tend to impregnate the mud during the winter.
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There is the phenomenon of storm sewer overflows in the valleys which is an almost ineradicable problem of water quality management.
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No improvement of the storm sewer overflows is being offered.
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Storm sewer overflows represent a real problem, and one which should not be dodged.
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When there is a heavy downpour, the sewer overflows and backs up into the basins of the primary school.
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However, no whit of an approach has been made to solve the problem of storm sewer overflows that bring additional sewage into the rivers that feed into the lake.
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