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Spanish: cauce pluvial

English translation: rain runoff







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Spanish term or phrase:cauce pluvial
English translation:rain runoff
Entered by:Simon Bruni
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Geography
Spanish term or phrase: cauce pluvial
Hello. From an environmental good practice guide for the motor industry:

"Interesa gestionar adecuadamente el aceite usado, a través de un gestor autorizado, ya que el aceite usado es un residuo tóxico y peligroso que, vertido a los **cauces pluviales**, contamina las aguas."

Thanks for your help :)
Simon Bruni
Spain
rain runoff
Explanation:
que, vertido a los cauces pluviales contamina las aguas = that causes water polluntion when it goes into rain runoff

La clave aquí es que realmente se refiere a las aguas pluviales.

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water pollution (Lapsus P.)
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Henry Hinds
United States
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thanks everyone
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Summary of answers provided
4 +2storm drain
patyjs
5rain runoff
Henry Hinds
3rain bed
Francisco Rodriguez
3storm sewer
Marina Soldati


  

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10 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
storm sewer

Explanation:
FACT SHEET -- Sanitary and Storm Sewers - [ Traduzca esta página ]
The storm sewer is a system designed to carry rainfall runoff and other drainage but not sewage. The runoff is carried in underground pipes or open ditches ...
ehs.uky.edu/ep/sewer.html - 7k - En caché - Páginas similares

Water pictures: Storm-sewer system - [ Traduzca esta página ]
A storm sewer to carry off storm runoff. A stormwater runoff intake What if the street you live on had only a curb built around it, with no stormwater ...
ga.water.usgs.gov/edu/stormsewer.html - 8k - En caché - Páginas similares

Sewer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - [ Traduzca esta página ]
Eaves troughs should not discharge directly into the storm sewer system but ... Separation of undesired runoff can be done within the storm sewer system, ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sewer - 32k -

Marina Soldati
Argentina
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Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish
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38 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
storm drain

Explanation:
this is really common...

patyjs
Mexico
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree translatol
3 hrs
  -> thank you so much

agree bigedsenior: ..the storm drains here in San Rafael, CA, are marked at curbside wit a blue whale inscribed "This goes to the Ocean"
16 hrs
  -> thanks, Big Ed....good idea.....Hi from Mexico..
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rain bed

Explanation:
We have had about five inches of water in the rain bed after one particularly hard rain...

http://www.mastergardener.iastate.edu/forum/viewtopic.php?t=...

cauce m
1 (de un río) bed
2 figurado (canal, vía) channel
cauces oficiales, official channels

- Diccionario Espasa Concise: Español-Inglés English-Spanish
© Espasa-Calpe, S.A., Madrid 2000

Francisco Rodriguez
Chile
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish
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3 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
rain runoff

Explanation:
que, vertido a los cauces pluviales contamina las aguas = that causes water polluntion when it goes into rain runoff

La clave aquí es que realmente se refiere a las aguas pluviales.

Referencias directas al fenómeno desde un principio:

Results 1 - 10 of about 64,700 for "rain runoff".

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Henry Hinds
United States
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in category: 24
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thanks everyone
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