Excessive storms can result in too much combined sewage for the treatment plant to handle.

Storage tunnels store combined sewage but do not treat it.

There are three combined sewage overflows at the beach.

We need porous streets to manage our combined sewage overflows.

The chief culprit is the combined sewage overflow system.

Combined sewage overflows contributes a small percentage of the pollution load to the St.

Finally, that warm rain after the big snow could also threaten the city's combined sewage system by melting the piles on the street.

Retention treatment basins or large concrete tanks that store and treat combined sewage are another solution.

MCS said the combined sewage overflows were designed for a climate which had since changed.

Technology has yet to keep up with the combined sewage overflows of the Gowanus Canal.

Storm water run-off and combined sewage overflow events are now major problems for many cities in North America.

In June, the department must submit to state regulators its long-term proposal for controlling discharges from combined sewage overflows.

Called "flow-through" facilities, they use fine screens to remove solids and sanitary trash from the combined sewage.

There it meets the pre-existing Portsmouth Tunnel, which conveys combined sewage by gravity to the treatment plant.

Along the Toronto Waterfront, for example, discharges of combined sewage are the main reason for closing public beaches during and immediately after rainfall.

It also captures combined sewage flow intercepted by the storm sewers at overflow structures upstream in the sewer system.

A wastewater collection system is the system of sewers and/or ditches that convey sanitary or combined sewage for a community.

This study deals with wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) loading and performance when receiving combined sewage.

This tunnel system will store the combined sewage during wet weather and release it for treatment at Blue Plains once there is capacity in the system.

MMSD operates the only combined sewage system in Wisconsin on Lake Michigan.

Combined sewage overflow (CSO) has been occurring in the Puget Sound.

During the operation of combined sewage or stormwater detention facilities, settling of solids will occur along the invert of the facility.

The site of one of the state's few combined sewage and water treatment plants, Lower Township is seeking permits to upgrade the facility for water re-use.

Along with other cities, New York City is trying to curb the problem of combined sewage overflows by building underground reservoirs that work almost like bladders.

The brighter picture in New York City abruptly dims during rainstorms, however, because of combined sewage and stormwater overflows that overwhelm the treatment plants.

Few sewage treatment facilities were constructed in the late 19th century to treat combined wastewater because of the associated difficulties.

K104 Combined wastewater streams from nitrobenzene and aniline production.

Eventually, this led to the permitted discharge of sanitary wastes into sewers previously restricted to surface runoff only, legally creating combined wastewater.

Runoff from heavy rain storms overflows the city's combined wastewater and storm water sewer system, sending untreated wastewater into the lake.

Furthermore, there was a belief that the diluted combined wastewater was not harmful to receiving waters, due to the natural dilution and self-purifying capacity of rivers, lakes and the sea.

Pilot-scale research was conducted to quantify the effects of stabilizing combined wastewater sludges (primary and biological nutrient removal waste activated sludges), in a common high-rate, single-stage anaerobic digestion operation.

In wastewater effluent discharges, PPCPs and endocrine disrupting compounds (EDCs) may be present as a result of incomplete removal during treatment, from combined wastewater and storm water overflows, illicit connections, or leaking septic systems.

One HFW-only system treats just greywater; the two multiple element systems treat combined wastewater (both black and grey), while the second HFW-only system treats combined wastewater augmented by loading from an in-sink garbage grinder.

Sales taxes apply through the entire county and its cities, except for Atlanta's additional 1% Municipal Option Sales Tax to fund capital improvements to its combined wastewater sewer systems (laying new pipes to separate storm sewers from sanitary sewers), and to its drinking water system.