Sentence examples for drain and pump from inspiring English sources

Of these, 21 are situated on the banks of the Drain, and pump directly into it, while one, the Black Hole Drove pumping station, is constructed over the channel, and acts as a boundary between the part of the Drain managed by the Environment Agency, and that managed by the Drainage Board.

Action had therefore been taken to improve the ability to drain and pump water out of the sites following flooding (including doing work to change the position of river channels that drain the sites).

The street drains and pumping stations could then remove the water.

Singapore is taking lessons from the Netherlands in building dikes and seawalls around low-lying tracts of land along with networks of drains and pumps.

Instead, parts of New Orleans were underwater because the city's hundreds of miles of drains and pumps couldn't bail rainwater fast enough.

My basement has a french drain and sump pump that work fine unless the electricity goes out.

I explained about my basement and told him about one place we used to own that was so wet, before we put in the French drain and sump pump, we had mushrooms growing down there.

No need for such an overflow pipe in our design as when the roof water tank has reached capacity (i.e. the tank float switch is deactivated), any additional rainwater will be drained to the street (or to a ground/underground storage tank) through the overflow of the roof drain and the pump will be off.

The Twenty Foot Drain and its pumping station join the river as it makes another sharp turn to the east, to reach a set of flood doors and Chapel Hill bridge, beyond which is the River Witham, flowing south-east to Boston.

from draining tanks and pumps, said Michael R. Doyle, executive director of the New York State Petroleum Council, a lobbying group for the oil industry.

along with larger drains, gates and pumping stations.