: a medieval household officer often of high rank in charge of serving the dishes at table and sometimes of seating and tasting
: an artificial usually subterranean conduit to carry off sewage and sometimes surface water (as from rainfall)
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Barbara Henry, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Apr. 2024
The detour will allow replacement water and sewer lines to be installed, as well as vegetation clearing, the release states.
—Nwa Democrat-Gazette, arkansasonline.com, 24 Apr. 2024
Cities might even incentivize blue-green roofs by providing tax breaks, essentially rewarding building owners for reducing their contribution of stormwater to overburdened sewer and water systems.
—Matt Simon, WIRED, 22 Apr. 2024
The Hyperion Water Reclamation Plant was inundated with stormwater, which caused an excess of pressure in a sewer line that sent sewage up from manhole covers, flooding portions of the facility and at one point causing the filtration system to shut down, Newsom wrote.
—Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2024
Public buildings, streets and the city’s sewer and drainage systems either sustained severe damage or were destroyed.
—Michael Goldberg, Quartz, 8 Apr. 2024
Visitors can also see Indigenous artifacts uncovered during a dig and part of North America’s first collector sewer, built between 1832 and 1838.
—Elizabeth Warkentin, Travel + Leisure, 15 Apr. 2024
There was a faint scummy smell as well, as if of a sewer.
—Joyce Carol Oates, The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2024
In Santa Cruz County, high winds toppled a eucalyptus tree, severing a 10-inch steel aerial sewer main, and heavy surf damaged a municipal wharf in the city of Santa Cruz, collapsing a portion of its deck, Newsom wrote.
—Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2024
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Unfortunately, at the moment, this situation looks extremely likely, council members and city employees added, saying that the sewer lines are in need of repairs and the city hasn’t raised its sewer fees in years.
—Barbara Henry, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Apr. 2024
The detour will allow replacement water and sewer lines to be installed, as well as vegetation clearing, the release states.
—Nwa Democrat-Gazette, arkansasonline.com, 24 Apr. 2024
Cities might even incentivize blue-green roofs by providing tax breaks, essentially rewarding building owners for reducing their contribution of stormwater to overburdened sewer and water systems.
—Matt Simon, WIRED, 22 Apr. 2024
The Hyperion Water Reclamation Plant was inundated with stormwater, which caused an excess of pressure in a sewer line that sent sewage up from manhole covers, flooding portions of the facility and at one point causing the filtration system to shut down, Newsom wrote.
—Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2024
Public buildings, streets and the city’s sewer and drainage systems either sustained severe damage or were destroyed.
—Michael Goldberg, Quartz, 8 Apr. 2024
Visitors can also see Indigenous artifacts uncovered during a dig and part of North America’s first collector sewer, built between 1832 and 1838.
—Elizabeth Warkentin, Travel + Leisure, 15 Apr. 2024
There was a faint scummy smell as well, as if of a sewer.
—Joyce Carol Oates, The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2024
In Santa Cruz County, high winds toppled a eucalyptus tree, severing a 10-inch steel aerial sewer main, and heavy surf damaged a municipal wharf in the city of Santa Cruz, collapsing a portion of its deck, Newsom wrote.
—Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2024
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“Sewer.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sewer. Accessed 9 May. 2024.
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