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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
sewage works
noun
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▪ At present, sewage works must ensure that effluent meets the required standards of cleanliness for 95 percent of any 12 month period.
▪ Ocker Hill Power Station with two prominent chimneys, a sewage works and a canal surface with oil and floating debris.
▪ Of greater concern was the decline in quality resulting from the increased inputs of pollutants by sewage works and industrial plants.
▪ Once there, turn left to the sewage works.
▪ Phosphates in the water, from agricultural run-off and discharge from sewage works, provide nutrients on which the algae thrive.
▪ Producing methane gas from landfill sites, sewage works and organic wastes is another extremely practical use of resources.
▪ The residue, a carbon-based char, can be used instead of activated carbon in, for instance, sewage works.
▪ The water companies will have to improve the performance of their sewage works or risk other claims.
WordNet
sewage works

n. facility consisting of a system of sewers for carrying off liquid and solid sewage [syn: sewage system, sewer system]

Usage examples of "sewage works".

The work wasn't made easier by the smells from the sewage works nearby, but there wasn't much choice about that.

It was this journey that the body of the late marquis de Carabas was making, traveling west to east, toward the sunrise and the sewage works.

I have the greatest admiration for the A-Z and the way it scrupulously fixes and identifies every cricket ground and sewage works, every forgotten cemetery and wandering suburban close, and packs the densest names on to the tiniest, obscurest spaces.

Storage rooms were locked tight, but the heating and cooling plants, the sewage works, the generator pile all had to be searched painstakingly.

Slater giggled briefly, then said to Graham, 'Poor Sara married a cad who had the ill taste to become manager of a sewage works.

Most important will be plans of sewage works running beneath the forest, because you can be sure, that's where the rats will be.