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CSO definition

CSO means a combined sewer overflow which is a discharge to the environment at designated location(s) from a Combined Sewer or Partially Separated Sewer that usually occurs as a result of precipitation when the capacity of the Sewer is exceeded. An intervening time of twelve hours or greater separating a CSO from the last prior CSO at the same location is considered to separate one overflow Event from another.
CSO. / "CSOs" means Contract Standing Order/ Contract Standing Orders

Examples of CSO in a sentence

  • There are no adjacent sewer lines and there is no CSO facility that impacts this stream.

  • The parameters measured had to benefit both projects so were restricted to include water temperature, DO, pH, phosphate, and nitrate; copper was added to the chemical parameters because metals are often enter streams through runoff and it would be interesting to see if there was a significant difference in the concentration of metals between a CSO impacted stream, an urban stream, and a protected stream (King, 2007).

  • Tanyard Creek is 3.4 km long and 10-15 meters wide; its headwaters originate at the CSO and the channel is paved with concrete for the first 1,043 meters of its flow.

  • Runoff from the impervious surfaces and from the golf course can cause an increase in chemical pollutants, and in addition Tanyard Creek is a CSO overflow facility which is victim to a decrease in nutrient content and an increase in salt and runoff into the water.

  • The sample sites at Tanyard Creek were TA which is nearest the concrete channel that connects the Tanyard CSO to the natural streambed, TB which is located in a residential area adjacent to Xxxxxxxx Dr. NW and across from Tanyard Creek Park and Xxxxxx X.


More Definitions of CSO

CSO means these Contract Standing Orders
CSO means Catholic Schools Office Diocese of Lismore.
CSO. / “CSOs” means Contract Standing Order/ Contract Standing OrdersEvaluation Report” means a report on the evaluation of tenders prepared under CSO 12