Definition of HEADWORK

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Sentell added a headworks with an automatic screen and flow meter at the entrance to the lagoon. — Dennis Pillion, AL.com, "Sewage problems still plague Uniontown after $4.8 million in repairs," 20 Apr. 2018 The headworks project is scheduled to be completed by 2020. — Pamela Wood, baltimoresun.com, "Project to prevent massive sewage backups begins at Back River," 10 Aug. 2017 The report’s authors also were troubled by a 14-foot crack growing in a massive five-foot-thick concrete pier attached to the spillway’s headworks. — Ryan Sabalow, sacbee, "Catastrophic engineering expert asks: Is Oroville Dam leaking?," 20 July 2017 The problem was first detected last year, when workers at the Littleton/Englewood Wastewater Treatment Plant got high methane readings at the plant’s headworks. — John Aguilar, The Denver Post, "Aging sewer pipe under Denver’s south suburbs fraught with fetid, fiery problems," 16 Feb. 2017

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