: a medieval household officer often of high rank in charge of serving the dishes at table and sometimes of seating and tasting
: an artificial usually subterranean conduit to carry off sewage and sometimes surface water (as from rainfall)
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Elizabeth Warkentin, Travel + Leisure, 15 Apr. 2024
There was a faint scummy smell as well, as if of a sewer.
—Joyce Carol Oates, The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2024
In Santa Cruz County, high winds toppled a eucalyptus tree, severing a 10-inch steel aerial sewer main, and heavy surf damaged a municipal wharf in the city of Santa Cruz, collapsing a portion of its deck, Newsom wrote.
—Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2024
The foam contaminated the ground and the PFAS were carried across the area by the groundwater and sanitary sewers it was washed into after testing.
—Laura Schulte, Journal Sentinel, 12 Apr. 2024
The project also carries a roughly $100 million in infrastructure costs for things like roads and water and sewer lines, in Gutierrez's estimate.
—Stacey Barchenger, The Arizona Republic, 6 Apr. 2024
The fees help offset the city’s costs for a variety of services related to the development, from water and sewer connections to parks and community centers.
—Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Mar. 2024
In Bryan County, home to about 45,000 people, the county government is pursuing a $360 million expansion of its own water and sewer system to serve the plant and nearby homes.
—Russ Bynum, Quartz, 28 Mar. 2024
Instead, this is the website banner for the Little Rock Water Reclamation Authority, the wastewater utility that serves some 67,000 homes and businesses, operating and maintaining over 1,400 miles of sewer lines.
—Werner Trieschmann, arkansasonline.com, 3 Mar. 2024
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Visitors can also see Indigenous artifacts uncovered during a dig and part of North America’s first collector sewer, built between 1832 and 1838.
—Elizabeth Warkentin, Travel + Leisure, 15 Apr. 2024
There was a faint scummy smell as well, as if of a sewer.
—Joyce Carol Oates, The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2024
In Santa Cruz County, high winds toppled a eucalyptus tree, severing a 10-inch steel aerial sewer main, and heavy surf damaged a municipal wharf in the city of Santa Cruz, collapsing a portion of its deck, Newsom wrote.
—Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2024
The foam contaminated the ground and the PFAS were carried across the area by the groundwater and sanitary sewers it was washed into after testing.
—Laura Schulte, Journal Sentinel, 12 Apr. 2024
The project also carries a roughly $100 million in infrastructure costs for things like roads and water and sewer lines, in Gutierrez's estimate.
—Stacey Barchenger, The Arizona Republic, 6 Apr. 2024
The fees help offset the city’s costs for a variety of services related to the development, from water and sewer connections to parks and community centers.
—Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Mar. 2024
In Bryan County, home to about 45,000 people, the county government is pursuing a $360 million expansion of its own water and sewer system to serve the plant and nearby homes.
—Russ Bynum, Quartz, 28 Mar. 2024
Instead, this is the website banner for the Little Rock Water Reclamation Authority, the wastewater utility that serves some 67,000 homes and businesses, operating and maintaining over 1,400 miles of sewer lines.
—Werner Trieschmann, arkansasonline.com, 3 Mar. 2024
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“Sewer.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sewer. Accessed 23 Apr. 2024.
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