outfalls

Instead of running to the plant, the sewage was being diverted to 56 "outfalls" - basically, pipes leading directly to the water.

NYT > Home Page By JIM DWYER 2011

"The outfalls are the first thing that would become potentially unusable in that kind of scenario," Nichols said.

GreenBiz.com Green Business News 2009

With the river levels very low because of the current drought in the south and east, sewage outfalls have tended to become a lifeline for wildlife.

Weatherwatch: Drought, river levels and the effect on wildlife 2011

The scale of the disruption needed to build the giant sewer along the bed of the river and to connect it with dozens of outfalls along the river banks has angered many resident groups, who fear they will lose the use of public spaces for many years.

'Super sewer' plans must be rethought, say council leaders 2011

"There we will be away from the main sewer outfalls."

A Corridor in the Asylum 2010

The legislature passed a bill to phase out significant ocean sewer outfalls, a Clean Oceans bill, and a measure that ensures better management of inlets.

Sarah Chasis: New Report Card for Florida's Coasts & Ocean: Making Progress, But Not There Yet 2009

Community facilities typically include earthen lagoons, tundra ponds, septic tanks with ocean outfalls, and septic tanks with drainfields.

Potential impacts of indirect mechanisms of climate change on human health in the Arctic 2009

The Canton citizens group has raised repeated concerns about the proposed North Canton coal strip mine, which will have mine water outfalls into a creek feeding Canton Lake, the public water supply for over 20,000 people.

Jeff Biggers: 300 Clean Water Act Violations! Illinois Citizens File Notice to Sue Reckless Coal Strip Mine 2009

Another dominant pressure in the Perth area marine environment is excessive nutrient loads from industrial and agricultural sources, as well as from wastewater outfalls.

West-Central Australian Shelf large marine ecosystem 2008

I evoke those smells again with awesome clarity – gasworks was the usual claim, but easterlies mixed easily with offal from the freezing works and sewage stench that leaked from outfalls at the northern beach.

More In Every Sense (than just a town) Ivan Donn Carswell 2007