storm sewer
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Wastewater treatment plants are designed to take in thousands of gallons of wastewater from sanitary and storm sewer systems, and that water also carries a significant load of microplastics and PFAS.
From Science Daily • Nov. 19, 2024
These wastes migrated from the Alexandria Town Gas company site to the storm sewer pipe outfall and have been discharged into the Potomac River.
From Washington Post • Jun. 24, 2022
When the little birds try to waddle across the grate openings, they can easily fall through and into the storm sewer.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 25, 2022
“They do not take into account the storm sewer systems,” Criswell told Maloney.
From Scientific American • Oct. 6, 2021
I wished for my old home in the storm sewer; I wished I could see my mother and father, and run with my brother to the marketplace.
From "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" by Robert C. O'Brien
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