Examples of effluent in a Sentence

Noun The factory has been accused of discharging effluent into the river.

Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective One prong involves the agency’s decision to issue the permit without setting specific effluent limits on mercury and other pollutants. — From Usa Today Network And Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 21 Apr. 2022 The soil under its 2.7 million South Florida residents allows septic tank effluent to reach groundwater, a problem intensified by climate change. — Jim Morrison, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Apr. 2022 Utah’s scientific community, however, fears island building could compound the lake’s ecological problems stemming from invasive plants and fish, a legacy of effluent dumping, algal blooms and a loss of native biodiversity. — Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune, 8 Mar. 2022 On the west side of Phoenix, for example, effluent from a wastewater treatment plant pours into the Tres Rios Wetlands, covering about 700 acres along the Salt River. — Ian James, AZCentral.com, 8 Sep. 2021 That’s necessary to protect the environment as effluent treatment prevents the discharge of hazardous substances that can contaminate ground water and cause illnesses and other issues. — Forbes, 1 Sep. 2021 But if Chicago were allowed to discharge a portion of its highly treated, if not Perrier-pure, effluent into the lake — as do Milwaukee, Toronto, Detroit, Cleveland and every other major Great Lakes city — the project's cost would plummet. — jsonline.com, 2 Sep. 2021 For instance, the company upgraded its effluent treatment plant with new technology from the U.S. — Forbes, 1 Sep. 2021 That same high water also threatened Conneaut’s sewer plant, which discharges treated effluent into a channel that connects to the lake. — Peter Krouse, cleveland, 20 Aug. 2021 Recent Examples on the Web: Noun Aside from putting septic effluent into Utah’s water supply, the Pacific pipeline is probably the most far-out item on the list. — Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 May 2022 The effluent is to be released into the soil in 1-foot intervals, rotated through 16 zones. — Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune, 5 May 2022 For example, 29% of wastewater effluent is now reused in the South Coast region, while only 9% of wastewater is recycled in the Bay Area. — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2022 And high nitrogen levels caused by effluent from four sewage treatment plants were killing off fish and other creatures. — New York Times, 1 Apr. 2022 The effluent, along with uncontrolled industrial and agricultural runoff, degraded the water quality with nutrients and heavy metals. — Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune, 31 Mar. 2022 My group first watched a video, which explained that the plant’s effluent would be released into the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal, a thirty-mile-long waterway built in the late nineteenth century to rid the city of its ordure. — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New York Review of Books, 9 Feb. 2022 Residents of Likely are concerned for their health and economy in the wake of the breach, which released more than 2,000 football fields worth of effluent into waterways used for fishing, bathing, and drinking water. — Hannah Weinberger, Outside Online, 6 Aug. 2014 Where is the effluent flowing into the Fort Morgan plant originating? — al, 25 Feb. 2022 See More

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