Sentence examples for broken sewers from inspiring English sources

The vaults were flooded with an estimated 10 million gallons of water from broken water mains, fire hoses, broken sewers.

That means a simple gas analyser can sniff out trouble, saving sewage companies money and everyone else the grief of broken sewers.

And there have been a number of other fires, which have devastated both businesses and homes, as well as spills and broken sewers.

Donizetti's unfairly neglected opera suffers from scruffy blocking and a radical amputation of its third act in James Conway's production, updated to the 20th century and set against a broken sewer-pipe.

Hurricane Ivan has wrecked transportation infrastructure, broken a sewer system serving a third of Pensacola's 300,000 residents and likely damaged more homes than either one of the previous two storms.

In 2013, a fatberg the size of a London bus was removed from a sewer in Kingston-Upon-Thames. Two years later, forty tons of sludge broke a sewer in Chelsea.

The earthquake will have broken all the sewers and pipes so the water supply will be contaminated," said Dr Sameer Thapa, as he looked out over a car park and garden covered in tents sheltering patients at the Tribhuvan University teaching hospital.

Additionally, broken drains and sewers increased the risk of cholera through contaminated water.

Whether potholes, broken street lights, sewer repairs, gangs or permits for sidewalk cafes, "you're on the front lines," Mr. Burns says.

Locally, tunnel seepage water was enriched in dissolved Mn (avg. 0.70 mg L− 1, max. 5.58 mg L− 1), in addition to dissolved Fe, NH4+, and pathogenic microbes, likely due to significant inflow of sewage water from broken or leaking sewer pipes.

The walls were broken... the sewer broke there.