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sewage farm

British  

noun

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

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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

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 Alexander Teixeira de Mattos

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 James W. (James Watson) Gerard

The streets were paved; sewers driven under the town at a depth of 40 feet through solid stone, in order to dispose of the sewage on a second sewage farm of over 100 acres.

From The Hills and the Vale by Richard Jefferies

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