Parke said if the overflow happens rapidly during a rain, it means the water has crossed from a storm drain directly into a sewer line, while a slower overflow is the result of water seeping through the ground.
Chain Of Causation chain of causation : the causal connection between an original cause and its subsequent effects esp. as a basis for criminal or civil liability [intervening acts of third parties will not break the chain of causation Brownell v.
For his part, Christopher Lloyd puts forward four general concepts of causation used in history: the metaphysical idealist concept, which asserts that the phenomena of the universe are products of or emanations from an omnipotent being or such final cause; the empiricist (or Humean) regularity concept, which is based on the idea of causation being a matter of constant conjunctions of events; the functional/teleological/consequential concept, which is goal-directed, so that goals are ...