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Municipal Sewer Overflow

Term · Environment · MLC-T-ENV-017967

A discharge of a mixture of stormwater and domestic waste when the flow capacity of a sewer system is exceeded during rainstorms.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-ENV-017967
FieldEnvironment
ReferencesEPA Guidance for Federal Land Management in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Glossary at http://www.epa.gov/owow_keep/NPS/chesbay502/pdf/chesbay_glossary.pdf
Record as JSON 
{
  "id": "MLC-T-ENV-017967",
  "term": "Municipal Sewer Overflow",
  "field": "Environment",
  "definition": "A discharge of a mixture of stormwater and domestic waste when the flow capacity of a sewer system is exceeded during rainstorms.",
  "references": [
    "EPA Guidance for Federal Land Management in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Glossary at http://www.epa.gov/owow_keep/NPS/chesbay502/pdf/chesbay_glossary.pdf"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/environment/municipal-sewer-overflow/"
}

Record 17,967 of 30,736 in Environment terminology (MLC-0121). Request the full dataset.