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Local water quality has dramatically improved in recent years, as the management and treatment of effluent into the St. Louis River has grown more rigorous, thanks in large part to the work of Resource Renew, formerly known as the Western Lake Superior Sanitary District.
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Peter Passi, Twin Cities, 28 Dec. 2025
Beneficial bacteria in the tank break down organic waste, while liquid effluent flows out into the drain field for further filtration.
—Timothy Dale, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 Aug. 2025
The wastewater treatment plant would sent 850,000 gallons of effluent per day into Fellows Creek which flows through Canton and frequently floods, and would diminish existing water quality.
—Keith Matheny, Freep.com, 18 July 2025
In the summer of 2023 millions of residents of New York City and other metropolises saw dark-orange daytime skies thick with smoke palls from Canadian wildfires—and breathed in the effluent.
—Stephen Pyne, Scientific American, 16 Apr. 2024
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Peter Passi, Twin Cities, 28 Dec. 2025
Beneficial bacteria in the tank break down organic waste, while liquid effluent flows out into the drain field for further filtration.
—Timothy Dale, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 Aug. 2025
The wastewater treatment plant would sent 850,000 gallons of effluent per day into Fellows Creek which flows through Canton and frequently floods, and would diminish existing water quality.
—Keith Matheny, Freep.com, 18 July 2025
In the summer of 2023 millions of residents of New York City and other metropolises saw dark-orange daytime skies thick with smoke palls from Canadian wildfires—and breathed in the effluent.
—Stephen Pyne, Scientific American, 16 Apr. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for effluent
distributary
Noun
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Delhi gets its water from the Yamuna river, while Kolkata uses water from the Hooghly river, a distributary of the Ganga.—
Sanjana Venkatesan,
Quartz India,
2 July 2019
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By the 1950s, scientists noticed the consequences: more water was going down the Atchafalaya River, a distributary of the Mississippi.—
Boyce Upholt,
Time,
9 May 2019
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“Effluent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/effluent. Accessed 16 Feb. 2026.
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