How To Use Sewer In A Sentence

Sewers overflowed and mixed with rainwater and entered houses through drain pipes.
It is thought the hapless cat had been trying to escape after becoming trapped in a sewer. The Sun
As well, some new sewers will be laid in the town and there will be greater separation of surface water from foul sewer to create more capacity in the treatment plant.
It will also be used for the provision of small public water and sewerage schemes in smaller towns and villages.
But the greatest relief of all was to discover that the apartment contained a bathroom and a latrine — for, as the agent gleefully explained, the insula lay right athwart one of Rome’s main sewers, and was legally supplied with an adjutage to the water supply. The First Man in Rome

Clean, paved roads give way to dirt paths strewn with rubbish and open sewers. The Sun
Modern roads have a maze of water and sewer pipes running beneath them.
Now the capital has eight million inhabitants and the sewers are creaking at the seams. The Sun
Crews hope to have a temporary above ground sewer bypass in place a little later today.
A sewer system make your eyes bug out.
Mamelodi; to improve on the provision of services such as sewerage and waste removal, as well as water reticulation. ANC Daily News Briefing
Some were trying to lift gratings and grids in an attempt to enter the sewers whilst a few attempted to break down the doors leading into the Black Tower.
They are now able to refuse to disclose spill data on many of their sewer overflow pipes. Times, Sunday Times
Roads and bridges, public utilities such as sewerage, buildings and machinery, schools, hospitals and power supplies have all been severely damaged in the disaster area. Australian Assistance for Fiji Flooding Disaster
The antiseptic properties of large-scale tea drinking may have brought the sewerage conditions within controllable limits. All about Tea
They both found a manhole cover and climbed back down into the sewer system.
WASA has begun a $2.6 billion project, the largest the authority has built, to reduce nitrogen and trash flowing to the rive r from its combined sewer overflow system, said George S. Hawkins, WASA general manager. Trash-free Anacostia?
Hargreaves says there are new ways of delivering water and sewerage services to increase efficiencies.
There were also doubts about the ability of the current sewerage system to cope with more foul water and concern over the loss of recreational space.
Fifty-eight per cent of homes have electricity and water supply and are linked to the sewerage system.
The streets are littered with garbage and lined with open sewers.
We did our laundry with sewer water from a ditch that came out of a public bathhouse.
In the pure science section is the data surrounding the two chemicals ethyl mercaptan and butyl sereno-mercaptan which smell of a combination of rotting cabbage, garlic, onions, burned toast and sewers.
Some make a greater concession; they admit that disagreeable or unhealthy work -- such as sewerage -- could be paid for at a higher rate than agreeable work. The Conquest of Bread
The Government did not want to see households which paid for water suffer ... (and) a suspension held the danger in that it could also cause damage to infrastructures such as sewerage," Dr ANC Daily News Briefing
A downdraft over the stack is causing the sewer gas to be more noticeable.
So when the world's largest private-prison company offered to employ 350 people, local officials welcomed it with tax breaks and free water and sewer hookups.
It's not necessary to spelunk too deeply into the taint sewer in order to collect some of the most ridiculous examples of the press -- the apparently "liberal" and "in the tank for Obama" press, by the way -- attempting to connect Barack Obama with the alleged Blagojevich crimes. Bob Cesca: Why the Media Taint-Mongers are Continuing to Wrongfully Accuse Obama
Sewer, an attendant at table, aphetic for Old Fr. asseour, a setter, is now a very rare name. The Romance of Names
The rate hike will be the first increase in the sewer rate in five years, said Ald. Deener said, who estimated the higher rates will generate an additional $220,000 annually for the city. QCOnline Metro News
It was an argument that the great pioneers who put in the Victorian sewers would have fully understood. The Global Marketplace
Now the capital has eight million inhabitants and the sewers are creaking at the seams. The Sun
Whole buildings," we are told, "seemed to sweat as condensation formed on every wall, and the stench — always terrible — even in the depths of winter frosts — reached new heights of toxicity, flowing up from the sewers, privies, and yards, and filling the halls, stairways and airshafts like a rising tide. A Gangster Goes to War
It's a common problem to most cities, especially those with combined sewers, like ours that trap rushing rainwater.
If the rats had moved from the sewer into the drains, this was their way out. Times, Sunday Times
The fatberg was found in a Kingston sewer, by Thames Water, after residents complained that they couldn't flush their toilets.
Wajda's sewer rats swarmed onwards as allegory: they eventually emerged not from a Warsaw manhole, but a manhole on Wall Street.
They are tearing up the street to repair a sewer.
The subsequent construction of sewers through the teeming city proved beyond doubt the link between poor sanitation and high mortality. Times, Sunday Times
They are now able to refuse to disclose spill data on many of their sewer overflow pipes. Times, Sunday Times
That's if you managed to get into the sewer system at all. Times, Sunday Times
The pollution of a stream as regards fish by a one hundred ton pulp mill is equivalent to the pollution thereof from domestic sewerage from a city of the population of one hundred and sixty thousand people. The National Importance of the Salmon Industry
One of the main causes, in first-class bureaucratese, is known as a combined sewer overflow.
The sewer system had a very low ceiling and much of the path was taken up by a stream of thick, black sludge that oozed sickeningly towards some central point.
The bottom of the trap is clogged, and someone removed the cleanout plug to allow water to drain directly in to the sewer, instead of going through the trap. 2009 July 28 | Reuben's Home Inspection Blog
Workers plan to strike and shut down the sewerage system if the allowance is not paid over the next several weeks.
The supervisors' broadband/cable/phone proposal is a more straightforward boondoggle, involving massive new pipe laying during a sewer dig.
Now the capital has eight million inhabitants and the sewers are creaking at the seams. The Sun
You can make waste sewer pipes out of it. Christianity Today
His defense, that the street was nothing but an open sewer anyway, failed to sway the arresting policeman who marched him across town at gunpoint to pay a fine of one piastre four francs. The Path Between the Seas
The present sewer is a beautiful sewer; the pure style reigns there; the classical rectilinear alexandrine which, driven out of poetry, appears to have taken refuge in architecture, seems mingled with all the stones of that long, dark and whitish vault; each outlet is an arcade; the Rue de Rivoli serves as pattern even in the sewer. Les Miserables
The lovely Cloacina was an emanation of Venus, and her statue overlooked the imperial city's sewer pipes as they transported 100,000 of ancient excrementum a day. TPMCafe
The disposal costs could include a one-time charge to dump the water permanently into the sewer system.
Every hiccough of our sewers costs us a thousand francs. Les Miserables
One of the big problems now facing the industry is sporadic discharges when the sewer system is unable to cope with heavy rain and sewage. Times, Sunday Times
The sediment and heavy substance accumulating in the bottom of the sewers, impervious to flushing, is removed by process of windlassing at the manholes and transporting to the dumps.
The new school will attract families to the area, while the sewerage system will allow for further development.
A fugitive escapes to the underground sewer of an unnamed city.
Not many city residents go there to spend an evening because of the foul smell from the sewer, which is in the middle of the garden dividing it into two zones.
FRESNO -- Township Road 175 in Fresno will be closed throughout Monday for sewer work. Coshoctontribune.com - Local News
The sewer system runs from west London to east, on a downward tilt. Times, Sunday Times
So much rain came down that drains and sewers became overloaded. Times, Sunday Times
It is one of the largest cities in the world without a proper sewerage system. Times, Sunday Times
It was from the sewer of Munster that John of Leyden produced his false moon, and it was from the cess-pool of Kekscheb that oriental menalchme, Mokanna, the veiled prophet of Khorassan, caused his false sun to emerge. Les Miserables
The building official said he wants the house taken down to its shell - what he calls a vanilla box - with only the salvageable materials remaining and the contaminated soil from past sewer problems removed. Local News from Spartanburg Herald Journal
Inside his Manhattan brownstone lurks something even more terrifying than his business associates: a giant sewer rat.
Whether mislabeled "flushable" or not, the county's utilities division is targeting them in a new campaign to keep them out of sewer systems. Auburn Journal - Top Stories
They said Ottawa has made some positive financial decisions, but cities still face the need to upgrade aging roads, bridges, and water and sewer systems while remaining dependent on property tax revenue, which they called regressive and inadequate. Top Stories - Google News
Sometimes it is just trash, though, gathered along the curbside or stuffed in sewer grates. “Forest Floor”: Trash as a literacy of ourselves.
Some of these kids stay in the school hostel and were exposed to this smelly sewerage water for two weeks.
They hurriedly set about constructing fortified positions in the sewers, cellars and vaults which honeycombed the entire ghetto.
We learn about the ecological impacts of agriculture, husbandry, charcoal production, mills and dams, commercial logging, city sewers, and commercial fishing.
The pond stank like a sewer.
There's $5 billion in the measure for such clean water projects, including 333 so-called earmarked by lawmakers in both parties, such as $500,000 for Fremont, Ohio, to deal with sewer overflows during heavy rains and $400,000 for Washburn, N.D., for improvements to its drinking water treatment plant. Undefined
The project aims to upgrade and rehabilitate all existing sewerage systems in the town, along with extending the sewerage system to environs of the town, which have been developed since the first stage of the development.
It has no sewerage system and no electricity. The Sun
That's why they had to build a sewer set in the studios for his scenes. Times, Sunday Times
I was filming in the city 's vast sewer system for three weeks. Times, Sunday Times
Let me tell you, there's a reason that the mutant monsters in horror films generally come from one of two places, a nuclear waste dump or a sewer.
Where a sewer is requisitioned, the sewerage undertaker may require contribution to the cost from the person requisitioning the sewer.
much of the waste material is carried off in the sewers
Beaches filled with sewerage: what a fitting 'epilog' to the decadent design and development tale that was Dubai. TreeHugger
A survey was being carried out round the village, and some obstructions had been found in the sewer from the top of Armscote Road.
I think what bothers me isn't the word itself, but the fear of using the word sewer because it is a homograph. Quick Fabric Update - A Dress A Day
It will then decide if the proposals can work and do not adversely affect the sewerage system. Times, Sunday Times
Awm sewer on it mother; for t'last maister aw had sed awd towt him patience, an 'awm sartin he niver towt me owt. Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley
And it isn't just that so many of its key scenes are set in dark, dreary places: a hellish prison, a bleak factory, the sewers of Paris.
But they are looking for highly skilled machinists, cutters and sewers to satisfy a soaring demand for their 2005/06 collection.
The neighbouring gaff has been kicking up a stink after their sewers stopped working. The Sun
The technology methodology didn't work for us, nor did the reward for placing the cables in the sewers. Computing
He intervened like an archangel. He must have flung himself into the midst of the battle, have stolen me away, have opened the sewer, have dragged me into it and have carried me through it!
Just as we waited until the last moment before replacing crumbling Victorian sewers, we have now reached a similar point with our energy infrastructure. Times, Sunday Times
It's depressing when your mind becomes a sewer of spattering hate and impatience that you don't remember asking for.
Ah well you see - Tavistock because: Duke of Bedford was a bit of a water and sewerage enthusiast as discussed in earlyer pages and the estate went to great lengths to instal a very comprehensive system at Tavistock. Underfoot 3
What little is visible in the background looks like a fragment of an underground sewer.
Breeding occurs in rain barrels, tin cans, tires, stormsewer catch basins, street gutters, polluted ground pools, cesspools, open septic tanks, etc.
a branch of the sewer
Swiftly turning on the Frenchman, Crockett—his handsome visage wrought into an irate scowl—said: “Are you calling my pard a liar, mon-sewer?” Nevermore
That's why they had to build a sewer set in the studios for his scenes. Times, Sunday Times
Many of the areas being targeted by sea changers do not have sufficient embedded infrastructure such as roads, water mains, sewerage and power, to cope with the growth in demand.
Ballina will hopefully see completion of phase two of the town sewerage scheme inside the next fifteen months.
He was the ideal caricature used by brainless, anti-semitic writers of fiction who were conceived in sewers.
It was all channelled into the sewers. Times, Sunday Times
The sewer collapse happened before I got to San Francisco, but I still remember the impressive television news footage of that giant Tudor house cartwheeling in seconds into a giant hole and collapsing into a bunch of boards.
Cities also varied on whether they would require mandatory connection to the sewer or water supply system.
To the 3x size sewer: take the pattern I recommended here and make it in muslin, m 90 "or 50" wide piece, double, and if it works you know the pattern fits. Alfred Augustus Glendening 1861-1903
The fact that A.K. was the person who suggested lowering the sewers was confirmed during his examination by Zaven Sarkissian, the defendant's consulting engineer.
Living in a sewer rat, talent varies Law, smell sensitivity.
Luther is quoted as saying he was "in cloaca", or in the sewer, when he was inspired to argue that salvation is granted because of faith, not deeds. Archive 2004-10-01
Every householder is willing to part with a fixed sum for modernisation of sewerage disposal.
They climbed down the ladder and stood in the shallow waters of the sewer.
There is no gas or sewer service and very limitable electricity. CNN Transcript Jan 20, 2006
In Karachi a huge section of the population goes without clean water or a sewerage system.
Bardon, who later described the settlement as ‘an unsewered, undrained, garbage-strewn death camp in all but name,’ won the respect of the older men and encouraged them to paint their ancestral stories.
He said the town has other property with water and sewer hookups that is ready to be developed; he therefore imputes political motives to the plan to take the last of this land.
At the same time, a chubby, square-faced man flattened his body against the roadway, and dangled his arm through the metal slats down into the sewer drain. A Kettle of Vultures
This P trap has a 1-½ inch water seal to keep sewer gases from entering the building from the drainage system.
It can then legally use the grants to weatherproof the building, remove asbestos and build roads and sewers from next spring.
They are now able to refuse to disclose spill data on many of their sewer overflow pipes. Times, Sunday Times
Residents are firmly behind the building of a sewerage plant but were disappointed that no alternative sites have been looked at for the plant, despite them expressing their objections about the site's unsuitability.
The boxes are given to families many of whom are living in appalling conditions such as old railway trucks, buildings partly destroyed by shellfire and in extreme cases, sewers.
It was all channelled into the sewers. Times, Sunday Times
The capacity of the sewerage system is limited and comes close to overload during peak periods.
Car chase, rooftop chase, sewer chase, apartment knife fight chase, boat chase, plane chase, Chase-Morgan, certainly they all were purloined from the Bourne genre but somehow Bourne’s were more believable. Quantum of Solace review
The underground chambers, known as sewer overflows, act as safety valves for the sewer network.
a sewer of fine gowns
His father worked in construction, building roads and sewers. Times, Sunday Times
The sewer's original standard of design is described as ‘poor’, and it has never been joined to the public sewer system.
I was filming in the city 's vast sewer system for three weeks. Times, Sunday Times
DRESDEN -- The second phase of sewer upgrades in Dresden will soon go ahead, the Chatham-Kent public utilities commission says. London Free Press
At night, the utility secretly opened hydrants and poured precious drinking water into the sewers to flush the pipes.
A mysterious prowler scours London's underground sewers and tube lines, searching for suitable victims.
Spokesman Patrick Killgallon said the high river level meant that water was being pushed back through the sewerage system.
Waste overflowed into the Swan River in Warminster after a blockage in the sewers underneath nearby playing fields.
We have a large sewerage system which is dependent on a lot of water moving through it.
The company would also alter its 'flushable' wipes to make them break down more easily in sewers. Times, Sunday Times
The paddles dipped into the water and the canoe pushed into the opening to the sewer.
The same is also true of sewers and drainage systems, many of which were not repaired when they became blocked.
The liquid effluent flowing out of the tank is, from a health point of view, as dangerous as raw sewage and remains to be disposed of, normally by soaking into the ground through a soakaway or with a connection to small-bore sewers. Chapter 5
Scientists first thought pharmaceutical factory wastes discharging into the sewers were the cause.
Beside me are open sewers and the debris of a house destroyed three years ago.
With engineering practice the disquisition discusses water supply & sewerage of - building on two sides.
He was enquiring about a burst sewer pipe in Smith's field.
Nevin, of the water service, said the fatberg was a build-up of inappropriate materials put into the sewer network.
Seven rivers were made to flow through the city's sewers and served to flush any sewage out of them.
They're used in tight spaces to excavate water, sewer, and gas lines; to install septic tanks; and to handle landscaping and loading tasks, among other uses.
They stepped into the tunnels of the sewers, in the ankle-deep, putrid water.
The roads are rutted, often marked by open sewers, and pass by homes surrounded by walls topped with barbed wire or embedded shards of glass to repel intruders. Richard North Patterson discusses Eclipse
What enthusiasts often overlook is that western communities do not always depend on sewer systems.
By 1989, sewer workers stopped using it and relied on a less effective backup system to provide secondary treatment.
Remember the floods, which brought deoxygenated water with rotting vegetation that smells like raw sewerage to Ballina, and killed all the fish in the Richmond?
We deal with families living in awful conditions - in old railway trucks, buildings partly destroyed by shellfire and even with street kids who live in sewers.
The problem is often sewers overflowing after heavy rain. Times, Sunday Times
All three were soaked with the disgusting water from the sewer, and poor little Roni was covered from head to toe in it.
Workers cleaned and repaired the Baghdad trunk sewer line and its associated manholes and pumping stations.
Co-operation for the Environment and Development (Danced) for specific environmental projects, such as sewerage and waste treatment schemes. ANC Daily News Briefing
They never had to contend with the problems of clogged sewers, of water and electricity cut-offs, of telephones not working.
Sligo County Council still await sanction from the Dept. of the Environment to upgrade the Tubbercurry sewerage treatment facilities.
September is National Sewing Month, and in this era of tighter budgets and heightened environmental awareness, the Sewing & Craft Alliance and the American Sewing Guild are encouraging sewers to "reuse, remake, restyle" their old favorites into something new. During National Sewing Month, make old household items new again
Not that the problem is over if the fat makes it past your pipes into the sewers. Times, Sunday Times
The construction of the outfall sewer was necessary to relieve pressure on the strained Johannesburg sewer system.
The plan proposes to rehabilitate the sewer system in the area and to upgrade the infrastructure in and around the river.
The sink, the flush toilet, and the sewer literally formed a pipeline to the vilest contamination that befouled the city.
Furthermore, the person who owns the land through which a sewer runs is not liable to repair it unless he has specifically agreed to do so. Times, Sunday Times
Just as we waited until the last moment before replacing crumbling Victorian sewers, we have now reached a similar point with our energy infrastructure. Times, Sunday Times
He said sewer pipes were altered in the 1980s, as part of a major Kendal scheme, and settlement in the ground had probably caused the old and new sections of tubing to collapse.
This meant that water from the road was not being directed into the sewer and instead was washing the earth away from under the road surface.
Roads, bridges, utility lines, water and sewer pipes, and other supporting services have to be rebuilt.
Residents are adamant that neither the sewerage system nor road infrastructure can cope with such an increase.
Sprinkle it about where a suspicious smell is detected - in lavatories, sickrooms, cesspools or sewers.
The Mail On Sunday might be a sewer of sleaze and disreputable journalism, but gadzooks, it does have its uses sometimes.. Mark Clarke: Womaniser and general bastard?
In educationese, these are called "catchment districts", a phrase that resonates of something involving a sewer system.
A complicated system of sewers runs under the city.
They relate to the provision of public sewerage in areas hitherto unserved in that way.
Many of the country's bathing beaches have combined sewer overflows and stormwater outfalls on or near the beach.
I will ensure that any statements regarding funding for sewerage treatment works for Waterford made prior to the Election will be held to.
The technology methodology didn't work for us, nor did the reward for placing the cables in the sewers. Computing
Development of the site has been delayed pending completion of the sewerage scheme.
A council investigation led to the blocked sewerage pipe at the old mill race.
Council heard upgrades to the water and sewer mains there will need upgrading to properly service the proposed affordable housing complex on the former community hall site.
That's if you managed to get into the sewer system at all. Times, Sunday Times
He walks even faster, and soon breaks into a trot as multitudes of rats swarm from sewers, basements, vacant lots, and abandoned cars.
Interceptor sewers were built in the residential enclaves of the affluent along the lakefront only to divert their wastewater through the neighborhoods of those forced by poverty to live along the riverfront.
Dedicated to non-man entry sewer repair and maintenance, the Sika-Robot cuts costs by eliminating the need to excavate pipes.
The (nonhome-rule New York statutes of 1873 show many examples of time-consuming trivia: “An act to provide for the regulation and licensing of scavengers in the City of New York,” “An Act in relation to a sidewalk from the Village of Albion to Mount Albion Cemetery” and “An act to amend an act entitled An Act to authorize the construction of sewers in the village and town of Saratoga Springs’” (chs. A History of American Law
I once mentioned a little saweiety sheet, published in New York, under the title of Town Topics, because it afforded me a kind of languid pleasure to kick the feculent sewer-rat back into the foul cloaca from which it had crawled to beslime the ICONOCLAST. The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 10
There was not a partition that he did not tap, nor a block of chimneys that he did not narrowly examine; all water-pipes, flues, cisterns, and sewers underwent an investigation; he even descended, in the care of his friend, so far as to bore sundry boards in the floors with a bradawl. Barchester Towers
He is also well qualified to comment on the technical and practical aspects of the provision of sewerage to Bent Hill.
University lecturers find themselves earning less than the people who unblock their sewers and fix their cars.
He pulled himself along through the dank, dark sewers until he came to an opening.
It is caused, they maintain, by sewers unable to cope with torrential downpours. Times, Sunday Times
The subsequent construction of sewers through the teeming city proved beyond doubt the link between poor sanitation and high mortality. Times, Sunday Times
If the rats had moved from the sewer into the drains, this was their way out. Times, Sunday Times
This system can be upgraded when more money and/or water is available by connecting the sewers or installing a cistern-flush toilet.
Sewerage will continue to be charged via the council tax or the non-domestic sewerage rate.
Engineers have already had one attempt at unblocking the sewer, but their jet-spray equipment was not powerful enough to reach the blockage.
Smoke poured through manhole covers from underground sewers. Times, Sunday Times
It is supposed to be washed down the gutter and into the city's vast sewerage system.
The fatberg had been clogging London's sewers and was dangerously close to flooding the streets with raw waste.
The River Croal was an open sewer and the middens stank all through the year.

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