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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
sewage
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a sewer/sewage pipe (=for removing waste from the human body)
sewage disposal (=getting rid of waste water and waste products from toilets etc)
▪ The city invested thousands in improved sewage disposal.
sewage works
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
raw
▪ Cardigan Bay, once famed for its dolphins, is now polluted with raw sewage and animal wastes.
▪ Or would he perhaps look upon a clear mountain stream and complain about the absence of raw sewage or Industrial effluents?
▪ A further 300 tonnes of fish were suffocated in May, when raw sewage flooded into the river after a storm.
▪ Charvat said that before his arrival, the plant secretly dumped millions of gallons of raw sewage into the Ohio River.
▪ Grants and available technology shall be provided for the avoidance of the crazy Victorian idea of pumping raw sewage out to sea.
▪ The resort has been accused of dumping raw sewage in the lake at least four times in the last three years.
▪ Domestic and industrial waste, discharged oil and millions of gallons of raw sewage are flushed into the sea every day.
▪ All around, thousands of their compatriots waited in pitiful food queues as the stench of raw sewage hung over Trnopolje.
untreated
▪ Used Sanpro products also pose a threat to public health as untreated sewage in our coastal waters.
▪ In extreme wet weather, it allows untreated and unscreened sewage to escape to the River Forth.
■ NOUN
disposal
▪ Not surprisingly, these sites usually lack a water supply and provision for sewage disposal.
▪ Examples would include the provision and maintenance of fences, roads, drains, sewers and private sewage disposal works.
▪ Smog and acid rain, water pollution and sewage disposal, dams and river-flows will become ever more contentious issues.
▪ A survey will be carried out of sewage disposal systems and it is highly likely that major expenditure will be necessary.
outfall
▪ The research began after the discovery of hermaphrodite carp next to a large sewage outfall.
▪ At low tide, the sewage outfall at Porthleven harbour can be seen depositing thick sludge into the sea.
plant
▪ Scores of sewage plants along the Chesapeake's tributaries are disgorging nitrogen and phosphorus, natural products of biological sewage treatment.
▪ Should we close down sewage plants because they are not absolutely perfectly clean?
pollution
▪ He's certain it's caused by sewage pollution.
▪ But it took the problem of cross- border sewage pollution to really drive the point home.
▪ It found an increase of symptoms of sewage pollution among the 455 children who had swum in the sea.
▪ According to the Society, the major health hazard is still sewage pollution.
sludge
▪ Material suitable for deep sea dumping included sewage sludge, industrial waste, and toxic ashes left after the incineration of garbage.
▪ Fully-digested sewage sludge is also used, with considerable success.
▪ So within the supermarkets' own quality assurance schemes, sewage sludge is likely to be ruled out.
▪ Given the power of the supermarkets, the widespread use of sewage sludge as fertiliser looks unlikely.
▪ Listeria occurs in large amounts in the sewage sludge which is spread on farmland.
▪ From 1942 to 1961, two consecutive fields were treated variously with farmyard manure, fertilizers and sewage sludge.
▪ Over a quarter of Britain's 3.5 million wet tonnes of sewage sludge is dumped at sea.
▪ The Clivus Multrum had been charged with a mixture of softwood shavings and activated sewage sludge supplied by Southern Water.
system
▪ Voice over Urbanisation has also put pressure on the sewage system.
▪ There is a sewage system, hand-dug, which replaced the open trenches that ran through the camp until recently.
▪ The sewage system used in the autonomous house comprises two toilets and a composting tank.
▪ But sewage systems are not the only non-potable water systems cross-connected to the potable water supply.
▪ Even waste water from water changes is not allowed to go into our sewage system during this period.
▪ The action follows incidents in which severe wet weather caused the local sewage system to overflow into gardens in the town.
▪ In many regions, industry is permitted to connect up to the domestic sewage system to discharge its toxic waste.
▪ There were reports of fuel cuts and a breakdown of the water and sewage systems in Stepanakert.
treatment
▪ Those beaches which benefit from improved sewage treatment systems, such as Hunstanton in Norfolk, are praised for their water quality.
▪ It consists of stripping these compounds out at sewage treatment works.
▪ Demonstrating the cleaning powers of modern sewage treatment plants is something of an obsession for those who work there.
▪ Translated into reality, it means a self-contained sewage treatment garden plant and a haven for Britain's natural flora.
▪ Nearly half its people live without public services such as a sewage treatment system.
▪ The owner says the problem is caused by a Severn trent sewage treatment plant half a mile upstream.
▪ It cooed about sewage treatment, environmental improvements and coastal waters.
works
▪ The residue, a carbon-based char, can be used instead of activated carbon in, for instance, sewage works.
▪ Once there, turn left to the sewage works.
▪ 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.
▪ Producing methane gas from landfill sites, sewage works and organic wastes is another extremely practical use of resources.
▪ The water companies will have to improve the performance of their sewage works or risk other claims.
▪ Phosphates in the water, from agricultural run-off and discharge from sewage works, provide nutrients on which the algae thrive.
■ VERB
dump
▪ The resort has been accused of dumping raw sewage in the lake at least four times in the last three years.
pump
▪ Grants and available technology shall be provided for the avoidance of the crazy Victorian idea of pumping raw sewage out to sea.
▪ The plant, due to open in 1995, will pump treated sewage further offshore into Cape Cod Bay.
treat
▪ Directions: Keep the bowl full by adding treated sewage as needed.
work
▪ The commission wants Britain to build sewage works at the seaside to treat bacteria before it is pumped into the sea.
▪ Farms in the South-West region and sewage works in the North-West and Midlands were among the main offenders.
▪ I accept that on the River Creedy the foam comes from effluent discharged from the three sewage treatment works upstream.
▪ Instead they saw the effects of a broken down sewage works, destroyed in the Gulf War.
▪ The group hopes to be informed of the results of dye tests on the sewage works effluent.
▪ The confusion arose because of sewage drainage works at the station car park.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a sewage treatment plant
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Charvat said that before his arrival, the plant secretly dumped millions of gallons of raw sewage into the Ohio River.
▪ It consists of stripping these compounds out at sewage treatment works.
▪ Recycled water can never be legally considered sewage.
▪ Smog and acid rain, water pollution and sewage disposal, dams and river-flows will become ever more contentious issues.
▪ The decision to opt for sewage composting was made largely in order to reduce the need for water for flushing the toilet.
▪ The plant, due to open in 1995, will pump treated sewage further offshore into Cape Cod Bay.
▪ There are no paved streets, sewage, electricity or water services.
▪ Underneath, faintly, was the stench of sewage.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
sewage

Sewerage \Sew"er*age\, n.

  1. The construction of a sewer or sewers.

  2. The system of sewers in a city, town, etc.; the general drainage of a city or town by means of sewers.

  3. The material collected in, and discharged by, sewers. [In this sense sewage is preferable and common.]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
sewage

1818, from sew (v.) "to drain, draw off water" (late 15c., from sewer (n.1)) + -age.

Wiktionary
sewage

n. 1 A suspension of water and solid waste, transported by sewers to be disposed of or processed. 2 (context obsolete English) sewerage.

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WordNet
sewage

n. waste matter carried away in sewers or drains [syn: sewerage]

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Wikipedia
Sewage

Sewage is a water-carried waste, in solution or suspension, that is intended to be removed from a community. Also known as domestic or municipal wastewater, it is characterized by volume or rate of flow, physical condition, chemical and toxic constituents, and its bacteriologic status (which organisms it contains and in what quantities). It consists mostly of greywater (from sinks, tubs, showers, dishwashers, and clothes washers), blackwater (the water used to flush toilets, combined with the human waste that it flushes away); soaps and detergents; and toilet paper (less so in regions where bidets are widely used instead of paper). Whether it also contains surface runoff depends on the design of sewer system.

All sewage ends up back in the environment (from which its constituents came), by any of several routes. A basic distinction in its route is whether it undergoes sewage treatment to mitigate its effect on the environment before arriving there. Sewage usually travels from a building's plumbing either into a sewer, which will carry it elsewhere, or into an onsite sewage facility (of which there are many kinds). Whether it is combined with surface runoff in the sewer depends on the sewer design ( sanitary sewer or combined sewer). Before the 20th century, sewers usually discharged into a body of water such as a stream, river, lake, bay, or ocean. There was no treatment, so the breakdown of the human waste was left to the ecosystem. Today, the goal is that sewers route their contents to a wastewater treatment plant rather than directly to a body of water. In many countries, this is the norm; in many developing countries, it may be a yet-unrealized goal. In general, with passing decades and centuries, humanity seeks to be smarter about the route of sewage on its way back to the environment, in order to reduce environmental degradation and achieve sustainability. Thus other goals of modern sewage routing include handling surface runoff separately from sewage, handling greywater separately from toilet waste, and coping better with abnormal events (such as peaks in use from internal displacement and peaks in stormwater volumes from extreme weather).

Proper collection and safe, nuisance-free disposal of the liquid wastes of a community are legally recognized as a necessity in an urbanized, industrialized society. The reality is, however, that most wastewater produced globally remains untreated causing widespread water pollution, especially in low-income countries: A global estimate by UNDP and UN-Habitat is that 90% of all wastewater generated is released into the environment untreated. In many developing countries the bulk of domestic and industrial wastewater is discharged without any treatment or after primary treatment only.

The term sewage is nowadays regarded as an older term and is being more and more replaced by "wastewater". In general American English usage, the terms "sewage" and " sewerage" mean the same thing. Both words are descended from Old French assewer, derived from the Latin exaquare, "to drain out (water)". In American technical and professional English usage, "sewerage" refers to the infrastructure that conveys sewage.

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Usage examples of "sewage".

Byzantine-Romanesque surprise which was heaped in bulbiferous pyramids atop the Hill of the Martyrs in the late nineteenth century, soon after the city had finished installing a comprehensive new sewage systen.

To the right of the walkway was the drainage way that carried the sewage, the surface of the turbid waters another cubit or so below the walkway.

Driven to desperate measures and wading through sewage with his trousers rolled up, Mr Grabble had seized on the idea of using caustic soda.

S-cubes, moongems, boxes of organic dirt, bars of niobium, tanks of helium, vats of sewage, feely tapes, intelligent prosthetics, carboys of water, and cheap mecco novelties of every description.

Time For Celtic Pamplemousse Spewing opinions like a busted sewage pipe!

Fire-engines are called to the sewage works where water is leaking in from the direction of Tilbury Fort.

With the loss of Tilbury sewage works, a quarter of a million residents in the Thurrock area are left without lavatories or drinking water.

But when Twing read that the excrementitious matters produced by each individual may amount to an annual quantity equal to one ton in weight, and that the other matters included under house sewage may amount to a similar quantity, and amount in total thus of two tons per annum, for every individual of the population, he knew he was on to a winner.

And the centuries-old division between India and Pakistan like a severed limb the refugees breaking down all attempts at organization finally the water-table under the city hopelessly poisoned by sewage mass eruptions of disease scampering mesolithic men crouching in their cave exchanging illnesses viruses use mankind as walking cities.

It domed springily over our dreg-bottomed coffee cups, revealing in the hidden space behind it the limp multicolored spaghetti of the utilities piping: gas, water, metered syntho-milk, sewage, coaxed TV, med-mist, Musik, robo-talk, robo-juice, tele, vele, elec, gelec, and such.

When he came out the air was crisp, stinking of the usual city stink of sewage but unfouled by the smudges of the plague fires.

In French peasants we have driven sewage carts over our hectares, estimating the unsown crop, and the cost, and the sowing.

Claudia replaced the sewage bucket in the corner, and when the wardress pointed at her wrists, she held them out obediently.

The hills surrounding Drake Field were in the full lush greenery of late springtime, and the air was the fragrant Bodarks ozone that is found nowhere else on earth, but he sniffed it as if it came from a sewage plant, and he looked around disdainfully at his surroundings until his eyes came to rest on me, and he gave me a look as if sizing me up for the casting couch and finding me not worthy of it.

She pressed close to the window and pushed her face into one of the open panes, taking deep breaths to dispel the aromas of the cabin, though the smell of the harbor was no great improvement, rife as it was with the smell of dead fish, sewage, and baking mud.