Definitions for "Storm Drain"
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Drain used to receive and convey rain water, surface water, and ground water away from buildings.
Constructed opening in a road system through which runoff from the road surface flows into an underground system.
An opening into the underground storm water pipe system.
An inlet for the capture of stormwater.
refers to the combination of underground conduits and surface inlet structures constructed for the purpose of removing runoff from the ground surface, usually from street pavement, and conveying it to some downstream discharge point.
The system of pipes that carries rain water from urban streets back to the ocean. Overwatering your yard can also cause water to run into the streets and into storm drains. Storm drain water is not treated before it is discharged. Storm drains are separate from sewers, which is a separate system of pipes to carry wastewater from homes and businesses to a treatment plant or reclamation plant for cleaning.
A pipeline or channel system that carries surface water and/or runoff to public waters, but does not feed into sewer system.
The opening into a culvert system that carries storm-water to a discharge point in a stream or ocean.
A system of gutters, pipes, or ditches used to carry stormwater from surrounding lands to streams, ponds, or Buzzards Bay. In practice, storm drains carry a variety of substances such as oil and antifreeze which enter the system through runoff, deliberate dumping, or spills. This term also refers to the end of the pipe where the stormwater is discharged.
A slotted opening leading to an underground pipe or an open ditch for carrying surface runoff.
An opening leading to an underground pipe or open ditch for carrying surface runoff, separate from the sanitary sewer or wastewater system
That portion of a drainage system expressly for collecting and conveying former surface water in an enclosed conduit. Often referred to as a 'storm sewer', storm drains include inlet structures, conduit, junctions, manholes, outfalls and other appurtenances.
system of gutters, pipes and ditches used to carry away storm water runoff.
See "building drain, storm."
A drain that carries away unwanted rain, drainage or surface water.
A storm drain, storm sewer, stormwater drain (Australia) or surface water system (UK) is designed to drain excess rain and ground water from paved streets, parking lots, sidewalks, and roofs. Storm drains vary in design from small residential dry wells to large municipal systems. They are present on most motorways, freeways and other busy roads, as well as towns in areas which experience heavy rainfall, flooding and coastal towns which experience regular storms.