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settling basin

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settling basin [′set·liŋ ‚bās·ən]
(civil engineering)
An artificial trap designed to collect suspended stream sediment before discharge of the stream into a reservoir.
(industrial engineering)
A sedimentation area designed to remove pollutants from factory effluents.


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Work is already under way on the $13 million first phase of changes to the treatment plant, including changes to the settling basins where organic material and other sediments are removed from the water.
They used cost-share funding from the Environmental Quality Incentives Program to build a barnyard and settling basin to control runoff.
The second is between the settling basin and the manure separator.
 
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