How to Use outfall in a Sentence

outfall

noun

• Avoid places where water sources are coming in, like a river or an outfall.
  — Claire Reid, Journal Sentinel, 11 June 2024
• 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
• The lower image shows the outfall area of the diversion in the bay.
  — Mark Schleifstein, NOLA.com, 17 May 2017
• Moore and the children became stuck on an outfall pipe as waves came crashing in, police said.
  — Bradford Betz, Fox News, 24 May 2021
• Every few blocks, outfall pipes will carry that water back out to the ocean, Rand said.
  — Washington Post, 13 Sep. 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
• The beach is near an outfall that collects runoff from several neighborhood storm drains.
  — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 July 2023
• Water gushed from the outfall pipe into a pond fringed with vegetation.
  — Ian James, AZCentral.com, 8 Sep. 2021
• The city plans to test an outfall to the river after the next significant rainstorm.
  — oregonlive, 6 Aug. 2020
• 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
• For these reasons, members of the public should never enter a pipe, drain, catch basin, manhole, or outfall.
  — Brie Stimson, FOXNews.com, 31 May 2026
• The state’s wastewater permit requires that sampling be conducted at the outfall pipe.
  — Arcelia Martin, San Antonio Express-News, 27 Apr. 2026
• Then, as it is released into the creek, the water churns over the concrete structures of the outfall creating more foam.
  — Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 26 Feb. 2024
• 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
• New Jersey installed a state-of-the-art drainage system with nine pump stations and 72 outfalls.
  — courant.com, 23 Oct. 2019
• 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
• Construction of the dam downstream of the facility's outfall is restricting flow of the stream.
  — Tom Sissom, Arkansas Online, 11 Nov. 2020
• Escondido relies on an outfall pipe that transports the city’s runoff to the ocean via Escondido creek.
  — Lucas Robinson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Mar. 2026
• 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
• Annual storm water outfall screening/sampling/training - $10k, paid for by the city.
  — Linda Gandee, cleveland, 15 Feb. 2021
• Abandon the outfall that causes untreated groundwater to flow into the river.
  — Laura Schulte, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 18 Aug. 2020
• But growth has pushed the outfall pipe to near capacity, and replacing it is estimated to cost $1 billion.
  — Lucas Robinson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Mar. 2026
• 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
• The overflow dispersed across the plant’s parking lot and ultimately entered Cedar Creek via the storm outfall.
  — Drake Bentley, jsonline.com, 12 Aug. 2025
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• City records indicate Encinitas has spent more than $2 million on sediment removal from area drainage pipes and the Manchester outfall in recent years.
  — Barbara Henry, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Feb. 2024
• 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