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
• That treatment plant's effluent flows into Norton Creek, a tributary of the Huron River.
  — Keith Matheny, Detroit Free Press, 4 Aug. 2022
• The wastewater disperses nearly 33 days later as highly treated effluent into marsh, through the legs of wood storks and roseate spoonbills and then to an expanse of cordgrass and sable palms of the St. Johns River.
  — Kevin Spear, orlandosentinel.com, 18 Nov. 2020
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• In a letter, which Deakin quotes at length, the agency cites the possible risks: sewage effluent; leptospires, bacteria carried in animal urine that can result in death; and dangerous currents.
  — Anelise Chen, The Atlantic, 27 May 2021
• For instance, the company upgraded its effluent treatment plant with new technology from the U.S.
  — Forbes, 1 Sep. 2021
• Chicago's three main treatment plants discharge a combined daily average of about 1.2 billion gallons of treated effluent each day.
  — Dan Egan, jsonline.com, 30 Aug. 2021
• 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
• 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
• In violation of Kenyan environmental and human rights law, the factory's smelting process would emit fumes, dust, and effluent laden with lead particles, according to a 2015 report by the Ministry of Health.
  — Deborah Bloom, CNN, 20 Apr. 2018
• 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
• 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 federal government contends the city of Driggs violated the Clean Water Act by dumping effluent with too much e. coli and ammonia or otherwise violated wastewater permit rules more than 2,600 times over the past seven years.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 28 Oct. 2022
• 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
• 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 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
• Several environmental groups filed a lawsuit in 2012 over the injection wells, saying effluent from the Lahaina Wastewater Reclamation Facility was entering the ocean and damaging coral reefs and sea life.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 20 July 2021
• 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
• 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
• Preemptive treatment could also be helpful in hospitals, eliminating antibiotics before effluent flows into the municipal sewage.
  — Jonathon Keats, Discover Magazine, 20 Aug. 2018
• 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
• That treatment plant's effluent flows into Norton Creek, a tributary of the Huron River.
  — Keith Matheny, Detroit Free Press, 4 Aug. 2022
• The wastewater disperses nearly 33 days later as highly treated effluent into marsh, through the legs of wood storks and roseate spoonbills and then to an expanse of cordgrass and sable palms of the St. Johns River.
  — Kevin Spear, orlandosentinel.com, 18 Nov. 2020
• 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
• 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

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effluent

2 of 2 noun

• The factory has been accused of discharging effluent into the river.
• 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
• The drugs pass through the plants into Puget Sound in wastewater effluent.
  — Lynda V. Mapes, The Seattle Times, 9 Apr. 2018
• In these zones, no effluent like sewage or waste can be discharged.
  — Sylvia Goodman, Chicago Tribune, 17 July 2022
• 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
• Rather, the wealthier a neighborhood, the less virus in its effluent.
  — Kim Tingley, New York Times, 24 Nov. 2020
• 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
• The videographer, Tavish Campbell, spokesman for Wild First, is an opponent of open-net-pen salmon farms and contends the effluent is harmful to wild salmon.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 8 July 2018
• The remaining effluent is aerated so it can be used to irrigate fields and flush barns again.
  — Wendee Nicole, Discover Magazine, 21 Feb. 2014
• 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
• 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
• Dearly beloved Anchorage dog walkers, can one of you explain why so many of you take the trouble to bag your pup's effluent and then just leave that bag sitting beside the trail?
  — Alaska Dispatch News, 22 June 2017
• 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
• These stains had the look of overflowing effluent, rotted in the sun and impervious to power washing.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 5 June 2019
• 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
• 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
• Some of that fertilizer, along with effluent from cows and other animals, seeps into the rivers.
  — Tracy Withers, Bloomberg.com, 11 Oct. 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
• 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
• 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
• On the southern edge of Gaza City the crystalline blue Mediterranean is being transmuted into a vast, bobbing pool of raw sewage, the product of half a million people with nowhere else for their effluent to flow.
  — The Economist, 13 July 2017
• 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
• Fish effluent is transformed into a nutrient for plants, then recycled back into the fish tank.
  — Los Angeles Times, 21 Jan. 2021
• Liquid waste, called effluent, is leftover once the procedure is finished.
  — Eleanor McCrary, USA TODAY, 30 Mar. 2023
• Faucets are running dry and the lakes that once nurtured the southern city of Bangalore and its nearly 10 million residents are either parched or fetid with toxic effluents.
  — Fox News, 17 May 2018
• Where is the effluent flowing into the Fort Morgan plant originating?
  — al, 25 Feb. 2022
• The effluent is cleaner than its final destination, the St. Johns River.
  — Kevin Spear, orlandosentinel.com, 18 Nov. 2020
• 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
• This mock-fascist facade, pushed up against a warehouse wall, with victory columns topped in huge sculptures of human effluent, originally led to the fair’s bathrooms.
  — Walker Mimms, New York Times, 4 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024