How to Use outfall in a Sentence

outfall

noun
  • The rules are there to phase out those outfalls by 2025.
    Ryan Van Velzer, Sun-Sentinel.com, 27 Apr. 2017
  • The lower image shows the outfall area of the diversion in the bay.
    Mark Schleifstein, NOLA.com, 17 May 2017
  • The drifters were used to track the path of micro currents near the site of a break in a sewer outfall pipe.
    Jenny Staletovich, miamiherald, 11 Aug. 2017
  • Rochette said five outfall pipes will be installed under the sand to take stormwater from the street ends to the ocean.
    Nanette Lobiondo Galloway, The Seattle Times, 27 Jan. 2018
  • Every few blocks, outfall pipes will carry that water back out to the ocean, Rand said.
    Washington Post, 13 Sep. 2017
  • Sewage made its way from there to a sewage outfall, a pipe designed to drain waste into the Willamette when heavy rains cause the system to overflow.
    Oregonlive.com, oregonlive, 6 Nov. 2019
  • The same outfall had an overflow on Feb. 8 that lasted for 13 minutes.
    Samantha Matsumoto, OregonLive.com, 13 May 2017
  • Future plans may extend the outfall pipe some 50 feet toward the water's edge to reduce the area of the channel.
    Fox News, 17 June 2020
  • New Jersey installed a state-of-the-art drainage system with nine pump stations and 72 outfalls.
    courant.com, 23 Oct. 2019
  • Moore and the children became stuck on an outfall pipe as waves came crashing in, police said.
    Bradford Betz, Fox News, 24 May 2021
  • The city plans to test an outfall to the river after the next significant rainstorm.
    oregonlive, 6 Aug. 2020
  • Now, four of the more than 100 outfalls — two of which are the biggest across the entire system — dump their waste into the tunnel's open section instead.
    Sarah Bowman, Indianapolis Star, 27 Feb. 2018
  • The pipe carries runoff from the neighborhood’s stormwater system to an outfall at a nearby canyon.
    Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 May 2023
  • The loading point of the plant’s outfall pipe is normally about 8 feet above the surface of the channel, Hockaday said, but as the lake rose, so did the channel and the water inside the pipe.
    Peter Krouse, cleveland, 20 Aug. 2021
  • Construction of the dam downstream of the facility's outfall is restricting flow of the stream.
    Tom Sissom, Arkansas Online, 11 Nov. 2020
  • The beach is near an outfall that collects runoff from several neighborhood storm drains.
    Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 July 2023
  • At the time, the remedy — of sorts — was to put chlorine in the wastewater before it was sent into the international outfall.
    Michael Smolens, sandiegouniontribune.com, 18 Feb. 2018
  • Water gushed from the outfall pipe into a pond fringed with vegetation.
    Ian James, AZCentral.com, 8 Sep. 2021
  • The water flowing from one outfall near the kill had an acidic pH of 3.86, according to Blue Water measurements from Sunday.
    Christine Condon, baltimoresun.com, 16 Sep. 2021
  • In New Jersey, there are 14 ocean outfall pipes, including one in Atlantic County, the outlet reports.
    Joelle Goldstein, PEOPLE.com, 21 May 2021
  • The plant's relief system was triggered, the statement said, and sewage flows were controlled through the plant's one-mile outfall and discharged into Santa Monica Bay.
    Madeline Holcombe, CNN, 13 July 2021
  • Areas with culvert outfalls, drains, canals and creek runoff are likely to hold bass this weekend, with shallow running crankbaits like the Echo squarebill a good exploration lure.
    Frank Sargeant, AL.com, 22 Dec. 2017
  • Annual storm water outfall screening/sampling/training - $10k, paid for by the city.
    Linda Gandee, cleveland, 15 Feb. 2021
  • There will be storm sewer channels that include curb inlets on both sides of the roadway; a ditch system where necessary; three outfalls and two detention basins.
    Melanie Feuk, Houston Chronicle, 21 June 2018
  • Alexandria began to address the issue several years ago, knowing that a state deadline was approaching for fixing three of the four outfalls.
    Patricia Sullivan, Washington Post, 2 July 2018
  • The Saturday storm combined with debris blocking drains led to an overflow from an outfall near Southwest Carolina Street, the bureau said.
    Samantha Matsumoto, OregonLive.com, 13 May 2017
  • Twenty million gallons of untreated wastewater was sent out the emergency outfall pipe just 490 feet from the beach at Discovery Park.
    The Seattle Times, 28 Apr. 2017
  • Its authors found that sewage flowed from the outfall once a week, on average, making waters unsafe for human contact downstream at City Island Park beach.
    Scott Dance, baltimoresun.com, 22 Aug. 2019
  • Abandon the outfall that causes untreated groundwater to flow into the river.
    Laura Schulte, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 18 Aug. 2020
  • Washington received a waiver from the secondary-treatment requirement at West Point in part because of its deep-water outfall in fast currents.
    Anchorage Daily News, 28 Feb. 2018

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