Sentences with phrase «outfall pipe»

An "outfall pipe" is a large pipe or tunnel that carries wastewater or stormwater from a system or structure to a river, lake, ocean, or other bodies of water, allowing it to be discharged or released out of the system. Full definition
The Nassau Deputy Commissioner of Public Works told Newsday that diverting the 55 million gallons of treated wastewater a day to an ocean outfall pipe at Cedar Creek's Water Pollution Control Plant in Wantagh will reduce nitrogen levels by 99.4 percent.
«Sometimes we find reefs that are doing very, very well in places that you would least expect to find them,» says Gates — such as a reef off Taiwan that lies below the waste - water outfall pipe of a nuclear power plant and experiences temperature fluctuations of between 6 °C and 8 °C per day.
But the best use of this major funding for Long Island would be a significant outlay toward the $ 550 - million cost of an ocean outfall pipe for the Bay Park sewage treatment plant.
Now, we must continue fighting for the Bay Park outfall pipe that will save the Western Bays and work to protect our drinking water because Long Island must remain a truly great place to live and raise a family.»
McCaffrey also expressed concern that residents of the sewer district seem to be bearing «the burden of paying for the sewer outfall pipe alone,» although it benefits many areas outside the district.
Under the proposal, County Executive Edward Mangano said Nassau would use 10 miles of the county - owned aqueduct that runs under Sunrise Highway to transport treated effluent from Bay Park to the ocean - outfall pipe at the county's Wantagh sewage - treatment plant.
The effluent would then connect to a new pipe running south along the Wantagh State Parkway and to the Cedar Creek Sewage Treatment Plant in Wantagh, which uses an ocean outfall pipe to discharge treated wastewater three miles into the ocean.
Effluent from Nassau's Sandy - damaged Bay Park sewage - treatment plant could be diverted to an ocean - outfall pipe at the county's Cedar Creek plant in Wantagh through an unused, historic aqueduct along Sunrise Highway, under a proposal Nassau officials plan to announce today.
The treated wastewater would go into an outfall pipe to be discharged into the ocean.
And he says Nassau County should seize the potential opportunity to divert the Bay Park sewage plant's treated effluent through an aqueduct under Sunrise Highway to the Cedar Creek sewage plant, where it would be dumped into the ocean through that plant's outfall pipe, instead of into polluted Reynolds Channel.
That would save tens of millions of dollars by not having to build an outfall pipe for Bay Park.
Included is a $ 200 million project to replace the outfall pipe, with construction to begin construction this fall.
But of course, DuPont broke its own rules and hundreds of thousands of pounds of PFOA powder made its way through the outfall pipes of DuPont's facility in Washington, WV, which sits on the Ohio River.
Brewster Shelter Agent Brian Long performed seven cat - in - tree rescues as well as several different types of injured wildlife from birds to foxes, a skunk caught in a soccer net, a frightened deer in a fenced in tennis court and a wayward female eider unable to leave an outfall pipe canal at a power plant in Sandwich.
They'll swim, that is, if it doesn't rain within 48 hours of the race, which would vent raw sewage into the river from dozens of outfall pipes.
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