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.
Example: Thoreau ends his essay with a metaphor: Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.. This is an easy rule to remember: if you use a complete sentence to introduce a quotation, you need a colon after the sentence. Be careful not to confuse a colon (:) with a semicolon (;). Using a comma in this situation will most likely create a comma splice, one of the serious sentence-boundary errors. 2. Use an introductory or explanatory phrase, but not a complete sentence, separated from the quotation with a comma.