How to Use sewerage in a Sentence
sewerage
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Over the past three decades, the sewerage district has been able to capture and clean an average of 98.6% of wastewater.
—Caitlin Looby, Journal Sentinel, 9 Apr. 2024
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Bond proceeds would be used to improve Slidell's sewerage.
—Carol Wolfram, NOLA.com, 10 May 2017
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London's existing sewerage network dates back to the second half of the 1800s.
—Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 6 Dec. 2023
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Other funds will come from the sewerage district itself.
—Laura Schulte, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 7 July 2021
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But the sewerage district did not fine the company for the mercury violations.
—John Diedrich, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 Nov. 2017
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On Christmas Eve, the sewerage system in her St. Roch neighborhood went kerflooey.
—Doug MacCash, NOLA.com, 25 Jan. 2021
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The Bayou Pattasat and Bayou Vincent projects are among a series of seven drainage/sewerage/street repair projects the city will soon embark upon.
—Bob Warren, NOLA.com, 7 Feb. 2018
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The Legislature also refused to allow the city to impose a 1-cent sales tax to pay for water and sewerage improvements.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2022
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The area's sewerage district is replacing concrete channels built in the 1960s with more natural creeks to try to prevent future flooding.
—Ben Tracy, CBS News, 30 Sep. 2021
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There was no sewerage system in place, and the lavatories amounted to sixty buckets housed outside, beneath an oblong tent.
—Simon Parkin, Time, 2 Nov. 2022
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Complicating the calculus is that Jefferson has other needs: drainage, sewerage and streets among the most pressing.
—Drew Broach, NOLA.com, 23 May 2018
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But centuries of mudslides that regularly devastated the area -- only ending in the 1960s when the sewerage system was overhauled -- buried the tombs a few centuries after they were built.
—Julia Buckley, CNN, 18 Jan. 2022
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Communal taps, shared ablution facilities and open sewerage have been a health risk for decades; causing disease and diseases.
—Norma Young, Quartz Africa, 24 Mar. 2020
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The report emphasized the economic importance of the dam and river system, and that the human and commercial costs of the contamination extend to farm dams between and around the sewerage plants.
—Tawanda Karombo, Quartz Africa, 28 Feb. 2021
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The possible lawsuit is to be discussed at the sewerage commission's Monday meeting, according to the agenda.
—Tom Daykin, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 May 2021
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A companion bill that would let the public agency pursue sewerage and drainage customers in other parishes has been sailing through the Legislature.
—Richard Rainey, NOLA.com, 30 May 2017
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The sewerage district is leading a project to build a new facility on Jones Island to store the contaminated sediment.
—Caitlin Looby, Journal Sentinel, 11 Jan. 2024
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The sewerage district is leading a project to build a new facility on Jones Island to store the contaminated sediment.
—Caitlin Looby, Journal Sentinel, 4 Jan. 2024
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Vacancies for water and waste roles such as sewerage plant operatives also saw an increase, which recruiters said could be related to the prolonged dry weather and fears of droughts.
—Bloomberg.com, 11 Aug. 2022
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Detroit police, fire and water and sewerage services will be provided as normal.
—Tanya Wildt, Detroit Free Press, 29 Mar. 2018
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And there are many other places in the world where a lack of proper sewerage and inadequate vaccination might allow something similar to happen.
—The Economist, 28 June 2018
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Frustrated residents in Detroit, Dearborn, and Dearborn Heights were posting photos and videos of their basements, filled with water and sewerage backup, some for the second and third time this summer.
—Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 27 Aug. 2021
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City water bills are calculated based on water usage, sewage disposal, and flat service charges for water, sewerage and drainage.
—Nushrat Rahman, Detroit Free Press, 28 June 2022
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There is no sewerage system, no garbage collection, not even sufficient water to handle the proliferation of people and new homes.
—Julie Satow, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2023
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Murtaza Wahab, the Karachi administrator, said that the city has an old drainage and sewerage infrastructure that could not cope with the torrential rains and acknowledged that updates were critical.
—New York Times, 24 July 2022
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Since then, the city has been working with utilities across the country to push for a permanent federal program to help with bill assistance and plumbing repairs, according to the water and sewerage department.
—Nushrat Rahman, Detroit Free Press, 16 Dec. 2021
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The sewerage district provides services for about 1.1 million people across 28 communities in the Milwaukee area.
—Laura Schulte, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 8 June 2021
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According to the minutes from the commission's July 21 meeting, a representative from Landry's office motioned to defer the sewerage and water board project from the agenda item and approve the remaining projects.
—Hannah Sarisohn, CNN, 20 Aug. 2022
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Only about 47 percent of the hundreds of establishments are connected to the island’s main sewerage treatment plant, with many of the rest maintaining crude septic tanks or discharging their waste directly into the sea.
—Washington Post, 25 Apr. 2018
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Residents in the city and a number of surrounding suburbs served by the sewerage district are asked to take shorter showers, save laundry and dishes for another day, and empty rain barrels regularly.
—Caitlin Looby, Journal Sentinel, 2 Apr. 2024
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