overflow

In the worst case, sewers and lift stations will overflow, exposing the people within cities to raw sewage and creating a public health emergency.

So, like, if you sent an application in, Pat would deal with the application, or if the toilet overflowed, Pat would have to deal with it.

Some of the water in the river flows back out of the model through the overflow drain, showing that while not all the water in a river seeps into the ground, some does.

Most states require that lift stations and treatment plants have backup power supplies or enough storage to avoid overflows during an outage, but usually those requirements are for short-term disruptions.