How to Use effluent in a Sentence

effluent

1 of 2 adjective

• Plumes from effluent pipes greased the river that ran through our town.
  — Rosemary McClure, Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2021
• But that facility can’t filter out all of the fibers, which flow out to sea as effluent.
  — Matt Simon, Wired, 18 Aug. 2020
• Unless the farms are a closed system, effluent from fish pens will pollute the surrounding waters.
  — Chris Mooney, Discover Magazine, 22 Jan. 2010
• Jun and Arthur finish their effluent business by the time J finishes his own.
  — Literary Hub, 15 Aug. 2025
• Just like wastewater from cattle or poultry farms, effluent from fish farms can be a serious pollution source.
  — Pallab Sarker, The Conversation, 14 Dec. 2020
• Rawat says that effluent treatment systems are not consistently used.
  — Ayushi Shah, CNN Money, 9 May 2026
• Making the best use of other water sources, whether effluent or spill deliveries, helps preserve the aquifer.
  — The Arizona Republic, 29 Jan. 2024
• The effluent treatment plant (ETP) is running.
  — Céline Van De Loo, Sourcing Journal, 16 Dec. 2025
• Bees feeding on effluent streams from an M&M candy factory were producing honey that was green, red, and blue.
  — Benjamin R. Cohen, Wired, 8 Oct. 2020
• If wind speeds exceed 10 mph, the fountain is shut off by sensors to ensure the effluent water used in the lake and fountain aren't blown out of the park, city officials said.
  — Shelby Slade, The Arizona Republic, 9 Aug. 2024
• Sea rise also is pushing the island’s groundwater closer to the surface, allowing the cesspool effluent to mix with the water table and flow into the ocean.
  — Audrey McAvoy, Anchorage Daily News, 10 July 2023
• 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
• As for cows, most dairy farms generally focus on milk-producing cows, so effluent can be sampled after workers hose down milking areas, since that's where cows urinate.
  — Alice Park, TIME, 4 Feb. 2025
• That treatment plant's effluent flows into Norton Creek, a tributary of the Huron River.
  — Keith Matheny, Detroit Free Press, 4 Aug. 2022
• These efforts resulted in restoration of effluent permit compliance by June 10th.
  — Carlos R. Muñoz, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Mar. 2023
• In many places, these are supplemented by filtration of the sewage itself, especially where effluent is returned to the river from which the water originated.
  — Jonathan Schifman, Popular Mechanics, 8 Aug. 2021
• Thresholds limiting the concentration of effluent streams could further limit the ability of companies like Ebb to scale.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 26 Dec. 2024
• The effluent treatment plant will use a zero-liquid discharge system, which prevents wastewater from entering the environment while cleaning and recycling it for reuse in the plant.
  — Jennifer Bringle, Sourcing Journal, 3 Sep. 2019
• The effluent treatment plant also will help the company save in chemical consumption, freshwater usage and material waste.
  — Jennifer Bringle, Sourcing Journal, 3 Sep. 2019
• This method evaluates the cost of providing recycled water by only including the costs in excess of those incurred for secondary wastewater treatment and borne as a cost of effluent disposal.
  — Julie Gallant, Ramona Sentinel, 11 Apr. 2018
• 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
• Several former employees said the company knew about the issue for years and failed to address it, even as effluent bubbled to the surface of the ground less than a hundred yards from the luxury tents, giving off a strong urine smell.
  — Zak Podmore, The Salt Lake Tribune, 27 June 2021
• When the waste reaches treatment plants, the chemicals concentrate in effluent released into lakes and rivers and sludge marketed to farmers and gardeners as fertilizer, studies have found.
  — Michael Hawthorne, Chicago Tribune, 10 July 2022
• The researchers also collected effluent from two wastewater treatment plants, which filter out some, but not all, microfibers before pumping the water into Lake Ontario.
  — Matt Simon, Wired, 2 Sep. 2020
• The program can extend awareness about the existence and value of the Santa Cruz River, Bogan said, even when the flow depends on clean effluent discharges.
  — The Arizona Republic, 21 July 2023
• On a small scale, effluent from individual buildings — college dorms, prisons, nursing homes and homeless shelters — is increasingly being surveilled for coronavirus.
  — Kim Tingley, New York Times, 24 Nov. 2020
• 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
• The 14-inch line limited the plant’s ability to pump wastewater to the storage ponds at Rangeland Road, which increased the risk of a potential effluent spill, according to a staff report.
  — Julie Gallant, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Jan. 2025
• Preemptive treatment could also be helpful in hospitals, eliminating antibiotics before effluent flows into the municipal sewage.
  — Jonathon Keats, Discover Magazine, 20 Aug. 2018
• The plant consistently met effluent water regulatory standards.
  — Ahmed Ibrahim Yunus, The Conversation, 13 Mar. 2026

effluent

2 of 2 noun

• The factory has been accused of discharging effluent into the river.
• In these zones, no effluent like sewage or waste can be discharged.
  — Sylvia Goodman, Chicago Tribune, 17 July 2022
• The team had dug a trench from the drill site and was pouring oils and effluent into the pristine alpine lake.
  — Ian Max Stevenson, Idaho Statesman, 11 Aug. 2022
• This water enters a stage known as secondary effluent.
  — Emma Hall, Sacbee.com, 3 June 2026
• The drugs pass through the plants into Puget Sound in wastewater effluent.
  — Lynda V. Mapes, The Seattle Times, 9 Apr. 2018
• Rather, the wealthier a neighborhood, the less virus in its effluent.
  — Kim Tingley, New York Times, 24 Nov. 2020
• The remaining effluent is aerated so it can be used to irrigate fields and flush barns again.
  — Wendee Nicole, Discover Magazine, 21 Feb. 2014
• 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
• But state officials are not predicting when that study will be completed or even if it will be used to set effluent standards.
  — James Bruggers, The Courier-Journal, 15 Jan. 2018
• Liquid waste, called effluent, is leftover once the procedure is finished.
  — Eleanor McCrary, USA TODAY, 30 Mar. 2023
• Fish effluent is transformed into a nutrient for plants, then recycled back into the fish tank.
  — Los Angeles Times, 21 Jan. 2021
• Sewage is put in at one end, works its way through the system and comes out at the other end as a nutrient-dense effluent with the toxins filtered out.
  — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 3 Mar. 2026
• Some of that fertilizer, along with effluent from cows and other animals, seeps into the rivers.
  — Tracy Withers, Bloomberg.com, 11 Oct. 2020
• As such, a portion of the intake water by-passes the aquariums and combines with the final effluent.
  — Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 25 Apr. 2026
• These stains had the look of overflowing effluent, rotted in the sun and impervious to power washing.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 5 June 2019
• The effluent is at least 85 percent free of the pollutants coming into the plant that the process was designed to remove.
  — The Seattle Times, 29 Apr. 2017
• This effluent, amounting to about 4 million gallons each day, then travels a further half mile or so, through groundwater, to the ocean.
  — Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2020
• More settlements and small factories rose along the riverbanks, their sewage and effluent further choking the river’s flow.
  — Vaishnavi Chandrashekhar, The Atlantic, 7 Feb. 2022
• Innovators are coming up with tools to keep tiny pieces of thread that are discharged with washing machine effluent from reaching marine life.
  — Patrick Whittle, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Mar. 2018
• 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
• Governments have preferred big, showy dams and canals to investing in urban sewage networks or enforcing rules on effluents.
  — The Economist, 24 Oct. 2019
• For her part, Quant doesn’t want treated effluent flowing into the pond where her livestock drinks and her family and youngsters from her church fish.
  — Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 Feb. 2026
• Failing septic systems, heavy nitrogen loading to create lush green lawns, and farm effluent has been known to cause the harmful algal blooms, as well.
  — Greg Wehner, Fox News, 19 Apr. 2023
• At first glance their conservatism sits oddly with the quantities of effluent and profanity in their pictures.
  — The Economist, 15 Nov. 2019
• The lagoon itself has also been seriously polluted by the enormous amount of effluent discharged from these ships.
  — National Geographic, 16 Oct. 2016
• What your nose is picking up is likely coming from things along the river such as wildlife, algae growth, trash or effluent coming from a nearby plant, Donovan said.
  — Timothy Fanning, San Antonio Express-News, 12 Oct. 2021
• PCBs, as they were known, were present in industrial effluent and rain and were accumulating in the tissues of fish.
  — Keith Schneider, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2019
• Where is the effluent flowing into the Fort Morgan plant originating?
  — al, 25 Feb. 2022
• Two members of the team drove to Silver City before the contest to collect actual effluent water from that city's wastewater plant.
  — Diana Alba Soular, USA TODAY, 12 Apr. 2018
• 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