Chapter 10: On-Site Wastewater Treatment. 1  community or private drinking water supplies are not threatened; 2  direct human exposure is not possible; 3  waste is inaccessible to vectors, insects, rodents, or other possible carriers; 4  all environmental laws and regulations are complied with; and. 5  odor or aesthetic nuisances are not created.
The semicolon or semi-colon (;) is a punctuation mark that separates major sentence elements. A semicolon can be used between two closely related independent clauses, provided they are not already joined by a coordinating conjunction. Semicolons can also be used in place of commas to separate items in a list, particularly when the elements of that list contain commas.
The semicolon is a mark of punctuation ( ; ) most commonly used to separate independent clauses that share the same general idea(s). The semicolon suggests a closer connection between the clauses than a period does. Semicolons still appear fairly often in academic writing; however, they have fallen out of fashion in less formal kinds of prose. You would do well to keep semicolons at a minimum, advises Associated Press editor Rene Cappon. Unlike many of the other punctuation marks, says Martin Manser, there is no occasion on which the semicolon cannot be replaced by another form of punctuation or sentence construction (Good Word Guide, 2008).