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  • Thumbnail for Sanitary sewer
    A sanitary sewer is an underground pipe or tunnel system for transporting sewage from houses and commercial buildings (but not stormwater) to a sewage...
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    A sanitary manhole (sewer manhole, sanitary sewer manhole or sewer maintenance hole) is a manhole that is used as an access point for maintenance and inspection...
    30 KB (3,892 words) - 22:47, 19 March 2024
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    Cloaca Maxima (redirect from Greatest Sewer)
    The Cloaca Maxima (Latin: Cloāca Maxima, lit. Greatest Sewer) was one of the world's earliest sewage systems. Its name is related to that of Cloacina...
    24 KB (2,432 words) - 05:20, 7 March 2024
  • Drain cleaner (redirect from Blocked Sewer)
    fixture drain inlets through the main building drains and lateral piping outside the building to the collector sewer mains. The history of drain cleaners...
    14 KB (1,868 words) - 18:39, 10 May 2024
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    Western Outfall Main Sewer is a heritage-listed former sewage farm outfall sewer and now ocean outfall sewer near Valda Avenue (off south side of Kogarah...
    9 KB (1,071 words) - 21:39, 12 June 2023
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    Sewerage (redirect from Sewer system)
    sewers. It encompasses components such as receiving drains, manholes, pumping stations, storm overflows, and screening chambers of the combined sewer...
    11 KB (1,403 words) - 22:20, 12 March 2024
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    Mills lifted the effluent from the low-level sewer 36 feet (11 m) into the main sewer. This main sewer ran 5 miles (8 km)—along what is now known as...
    50 KB (6,108 words) - 18:26, 4 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for London sewer system
    The London sewer system is part of the water infrastructure serving London, England. The modern system was developed during the late 19th century, and...
    12 KB (1,308 words) - 03:34, 27 January 2024
  • Great Sewer may refer to: Cloaca Maxima (Great Sewer in Latin), the main sewer in Ancient Rome Menilmontant brook, a small river in Paris (France) used...
    248 bytes (69 words) - 00:58, 24 November 2023
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    Maxima, originally a stream, later covered over to function as Rome's main sewer. The rites conducted at the shrine were probably meant to purify the culvert's...
    72 KB (8,623 words) - 19:19, 2 May 2024
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    Drain'), the main interceptor discharge outfall of the system of sewers in Rome. The theonym Cloācīna is a derivative of the noun cloāca ('sewer, underground...
    4 KB (427 words) - 07:40, 27 September 2022
  • Thumbnail for Sewer alligator
    A sewer alligator is an urban legend and myth centered around alligators which lives in sewers, in areas which an alligator would not typically be found...
    14 KB (1,524 words) - 02:34, 6 May 2024
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    Serpentine in 1834, as the culverted Westbourne had become the most convenient main sewer and the Serpentine is now supplied from three boreholes from the upper...
    12 KB (1,339 words) - 17:07, 6 December 2023
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    Storm drain (redirect from Storm sewer)
    A storm drain, storm sewer (United Kingdom, U.S. and Canada), surface water drain/sewer (United Kingdom), or stormwater drain (Australia and New Zealand)...
    31 KB (3,179 words) - 03:50, 14 May 2024
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    Cloaca Circi Maximi (category Ancient Roman sewers in Rome)
    The Cloaca Circi Maximi or Cloaca Circi was one of the three main sewers in ancient Rome. Alongside the Cloaca Maxima and Chiavicone dell'Olmo The Cloaca...
    3 KB (359 words) - 16:58, 11 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Effluent sewer
    Effluent sewer systems, also called septic tank effluent gravity (STEG), solids-free sewer (SFS), or septic tank effluent drainage (STED) systems, have...
    7 KB (1,078 words) - 00:17, 17 February 2024
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    Rashbehari Avenue (earlier known as Main Sewer Road or Ballygunge Avenue) is one of the most prestigious and important east–west avenues of Kolkata, India...
    5 KB (418 words) - 22:12, 10 January 2023
  • Thumbnail for Core & Main
    Core & Main, Inc., headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri, is a U.S. distributor of water, sewer and fire protection products. On 1 August 2017, Clayton...
    5 KB (279 words) - 23:46, 18 April 2024
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    settlement, the river acted as both the city's primary water source and main sewer, leading to outbreaks of typhoid. Since European settlement the river...
    70 KB (6,654 words) - 07:36, 28 February 2024
  • originally specialized in clearing tree roots and other obstructions from sewer lines. As of 2020[update], it employs thousands of plumbers, and service...
    12 KB (1,433 words) - 14:34, 7 May 2024
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