Sentence examples for main sewer pipe from inspiring English sources

The main sewer pipe for lower Manhattan runs under West Street for several blocks and would have to be moved.

While I was living there, we sometimes talked about this or that rumored hot spot: a place where the road dipped under a railroad overpass and a main sewer pipe dipped under that, making a little kink where, it was said, stray fragments of nuclear waste got caught on their way out of town.

In multistory buildings, main sewer pipes are installed vertically behind toilets and kitchens as separate columns for blackwater and separate columns for greywater and mixing them occurs at end points before sending them to the main municipal sewer network.

A 12-inch water main and a 15-inch sewer pipe burst around 3 a.m. on 61st Street near Park Avenue, said Natalie Millner, a spokeswoman for the city's Department of Environmental Protection.

The problem turned out to be a 15-tonne mass of congealed grease and oil - a fatberg - that had blocked 95% of a 2.4-metre diameter brick pipe in the main sewer, threatening to turn the London borough into a cesspit.

The sewer network must pass close to the properties it is intended to serve and in most cases this means that the main sewers follow the street network, with subsidiary pipes (or laterals) connecting individual properties to the main sewer.

Enter a hole in the mountain resembling a sewer pipe.

The sewer pipe had broken in the dining room wall.

(There is a sewer pipe 10ft from the surface).

The sound of a rock skittering down the side of a sewer pipe becomes sensuous.

Sewer pipe plays an important part in the world's ecology.