What Is a Seepage?

A seep or flush is a moist or wet place where water, usually groundwater, reaches the earth's surface from an underground aquifer.

What is the meaning of water seepage?

Definition. The slow movement of water through small openings and spaces in the surface of unsaturated soil into or out of a body of surface or subsurface water.

What is an example of seepage?

Examples of seepage in a Sentence

Check for seepage in the basement. Recent Examples on the Web In 1999 an undersea pipeline that leaked at least 3,800 gallons oil caused tar balls to wash up on Orange County beaches, and tar balls washed up at Newport and Huntington beaches in 2016 from natural offshore seepage. —

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