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sewer in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Sewer commonly refers to a part of sewerage, the
infrastructure that
conveys sewage.
Types of
sewers include:...
- is that they
avoid combined sewer overflows.
Sanitary sewers are
typically much
smaller in
diameter than
combined sewers which also
transport urban runoff...
- The
sewer alligator is an
urban legend centered around alligators that live in
sewers outside alligators'
native range. Some
cities that
sewer alligators...
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combined sewers,
storm sewers or
effluent sewers.
Gravity sewer systems typically resemble the
regional runoff pattern with
large trunk sewers in each...
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treatment plant.
Pressure sewers are
typically used
where properties are
located below the
level of the
nearest gravity sewer or are
located on difficult...
- 13 July 1870. The
intercepting sewers,
constructed between 1859 and 1865, were fed by 450 miles (720 km) of main
sewers that, in turn, conve**** the contents...
- the
sewers, or "sanitary
sewers") that
convey the
sewage from the
point of
production to the
point of
treatment or discharge.
Types of
sanitary sewer systems...
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sewers may also
receive dry
weather drainage from
landscape irrigation,
construction dewatering, and
washing buildings and sidewalks.
Combined sewers...
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types of
gravity sewers,
sanitary and combined.
Sanitary sewers only
treat the
wastewater from
homes and business.
Combined sewers have
storm drains...
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drains are
separate and
distinct from
sanitary sewer systems. The
separation of
storm sewers from
sanitary sewers helps prevent sewage treatment plants becoming...
