Crossword clues for sewerage
sewerage
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sewerage \Sew"er*age\, n.
The construction of a sewer or sewers.
The system of sewers in a city, town, etc.; the general drainage of a city or town by means of sewers.
The material collected in, and discharged by, sewers. [In this sense sewage is preferable and common.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1832, from sewer (n.1) + -age.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A sewer system. 2 (misspelling of sewage English)
WordNet
Wikipedia
Sewerage is the infrastructure that conveys sewage. It encompasses components such as receiving drains, manholes, pumping stations, storm overflows, and screening chambers of the combined sewer or sanitary sewer. Sewerage ends at the entry to a sewage treatment plant or at the point of discharge into the environment. It is the system of pipes, chambers, manholes, etc. that conveys the sewage or storm water.
According to this definition, sewerage and sewage are two different terms. However, at least in American English colloquial usage, both terms are sometimes used interchangeably.
Usage examples of "sewerage".
The sea tossed its renovating brine to the determinedly sniffing animal, who went to his meals with an appetite that rendered him cordially eulogistic of the place, in spite of certain frank whiffs of sewerage coming off an open deposit on the common to mingle with the brine.
The camp at the Wells of Chaldi had been transformed by his engineers from an outpost of hell into a rather pleasant refuge, with functional amenities, such as ice making machines and a water-borne sewerage system.
When this benighted hole finally introduces adequate sewerage in the poorer quarters, the number of laborers who'll die in the diggings can be predicted -- in round figures, to the nearest ten -- by any experienced actuary or civil engineer.
From the neem tree that grew at the edge of the lot and hung over into the sewerage trace he cut a thick rod, far thicker than those he normally cut.
But the number of lives saved by that sewerage system can also be calculated, in the hundreds of thousands.
They'll save on the toilet tax since they won't be pumping so much into the sewerage system.
Once the Fire Chief had carried out an inspection of the basement of number 21 he agreed with the official - whom he had never met before - that safety checks would also have to be carried out on numbers 17, 19, 23 and 25, especially as the gas pipe ran parallel to the city's sewerage system.
The sewerage system of Turai is one of the wonders of the world, so they say, with a tunnel leading all the way from the Palace to the sea.
Just now and then he posted an incisive little farewell note in the Paris sewerage system, and it was delivered promptly to Dufarge's boot.