sewage

noun

sew·age ˈsü-ij

Synonyms of sewage next

: refuse liquids or waste matter usually carried off by sewers

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web Marin County and Sewer Authority Mid-Coastside, the sewage district that includes the city of Half Moon Bay, started testing samples of their community effluent for signs of the drugs in February and November, respectively. —

Catherine Ho, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 Mar. 2023 In 2020, a 37-year-old man at the jail filed a federal lawsuit alleging that detainees were confined to their cells after raw sewage leaked into the cellblock. —

Cassidy Jensen, Baltimore Sun, 16 Mar. 2023 Untreated sewage in the water in those areas can cause illnesses. —

Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Mar. 2023 For decades, environmentalists campaigned to daylight the brook, which adds 2.2 billion gallons of freshwater into outdated pipes that carry combined sewage and stormwater to treatment plants. —

Jim Morrison, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Mar. 2023 Here, a silvery machine resembling a giant food processor the size of a small fridge collects people’s waste, intercepting the sewage outflow. —

Lina Zeldovich, Popular Science, 14 Mar. 2023 Major utilities including a sewage and water irrigation pipe run through the levee and are threatened by the erosion. —

Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2023 Bad News Ocean spray can contaminate coastal communities with E. coli, norovirus, and salmonella, thanks to the sewage routinely dumped into waterways, a new study from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography finds. —

Heather Souvaine Horn, The New Republic, 10 Mar. 2023 However, odors from the sewage are released outside during the flight. —

Sofia Quaglia, Discover Magazine, 8 Mar. 2023 See More

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