outfalls
Where pipes empty
Outfalls are the places where water flows out—where a drain, sewer, or river empties into a larger body of water.
The term appears most often in environmental and engineering contexts: sewage outfalls along the coast, the river's outfall into the bay.
An outfall pipe carries wastewater from treatment plants to its discharge point.
Discharged liquid waste
- contaminationIntroduction of impurities
- dischargeRelease of substance outward
- runoffExcess water drainage
- sewageLiquid refuse in drains
stormwater · toxins · chemicals · heavy metals · pathogens · industrial · hazardous · environmental
Release of substance outward
- flowUnbroken forward movement
- drainageLiquid removal system
- watershedDrainage area boundary
- basinConcave water receptacle
tributary · stream · river · catchment · runoff · velocity · volume · flood
effluent
Discharged liquid waste
- contaminationIntroduction of impurities
- dischargeRelease of substance outward
- runoffExcess water drainage
sewage · stormwater · toxins · chemicals · heavy metals · pathogens · industrial · hazardous · environmental · ecosystem
discharge
Release of substance outward
basin · tributary · stream · river · catchment · runoff · velocity · volume · flood · stormwater
estuary
Tidal mixing zone
shoreline · ocean · beach · harbor · brackish · salinity · plume · dispersion · diffuser · nearshore
pipe
Hollow conveyance channel
channel · sewer · stormwater · diffuser · headwall · apron · riprap · erosion control · concrete · municipal
- sewage systemssewage, sewers, sewer, sewer lines, wastewater
- flood controllevee, levees, flood channels, dike, dikes
- Victorian sanitationsewers, sewage, drains, cesspools, flush toilets
- wastewaterwastewater, sewage, sewage treatment, effluent, raw sewage
- seweragesewers, sewage, sewer pipes, sewer, sewer networks
- sewerssewer pipes, manholes, drains, sanitary sewers, storm drains
outfallsintakes
Amounts absorbed
inlets · inflows · feeders · intake valves · water sources
outfallsintakes
Amounts absorbed
catchments · impoundments · reservoirs · cisterns · sumps