settleable

Examples

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• The EPA has also designated settleable solids as a nonconventional pollutant because Congress did not assign them as either a toxic or a conventional pollutant.

  Academic text (1999)

• The treatment process is designed to remove floating debris and settleable solids from wastewater before it is discharged into the river.

• Upland facilities must meet specific limitations of discharged suspended and settleable solids.

  Academic text (1999)

• Settleable solids, too, should be treated as a nonconventional pollutant.

  Academic text (1999)

• However, the limitations on nitrogen, phosphorus, and settleable solids will be analyzed under a BAT assessment.

  Academic text (1999)

• (n315) settleable solids, (n316) ammonia-nitrogen, and fecal coliform.

  Academic text (1999)

• Furthermore, the EPA has shown that it would be possible to draft limitations for settleable solids, as it proposed limitations for settleable solids in its draft limitations for aquaculture effluents.

  Academic text (1999)

• Furthermore, the EPA has shown that it would be possible to draft limitations for settleable solids, as it proposed limitations for settleable solids in its draft limitations for aquaculture effluents.

  Academic text (1999)

• The EPA should treat the escaped fish as a nonconventional pollutant under a BAT standard because, similar to settleable solids, Congress did not designate escaped fish as either a conventional or toxic pollutant.

  Academic text (1999)

• In water quality assessments, scientists measure settleable solids to determine the sediment load of a given body of water.

Synonyms

S

sinkable

vssettleable

5.8

Able to go below the surface of the water and stay there

also implies forming sediment at the bottom rather than only going down

N

non-buoyant

vssettleable

7.6

Not able to float in water or rise in air

focuses on making sediment at liquid bottom rather than general inability to float

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology