[ noun ] the outlet of a river or drain or other source of water <noun.artifact>
Outfall \Out"fall`\, n. 1. The mouth of a river; the lower end of a water course; the open end of a drain, culvert, etc., where the discharge occurs.
2. A quarrel; a falling out. [Prov. Eng.]
The treatment plant and sea outfall at the end of the North Halic section had to be redesigned.
The project, due for completion by 2000, calls for at least a dozen treatment plants connected by a web of underground tubes linked to an 18.6 milelong outfall tunnel that will discharge partially treated sewage into the South China Sea.