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sewage farm

British  

noun

  1. a place where sewage is treated, esp for use as manure

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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It has become dirtier over the years as most of the capital’s sewage, farm pesticides from neighboring states and industrial effluents from factory towns flow into the waterway despite laws against polluting.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 10, 2021

No one wants to live next to an airport or a power station or a sewage farm, and yet we all fly, we all use electricity, and we all… you take my point.

From The Guardian • Jun. 22, 2013

Some of the British prisoners were put to work on the sewage farm of Berlin but we succeeded in getting them sent back to their parent camp.

From My Four Years in Germany by Gerard, James W. (James Watson)

The plant effects this purification in its sewage farm of green cells.

From The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander

On the west side of it there was the Weybridge sewage farm, which, when flying began, added new terrors to a forced descent.

From The War in the Air; Vol. 1 The Part played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force by Raleigh, Walter Alexander, Sir

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