Sentence examples for main sewer reported from inspiring English sources

The first sign of trouble came when residents in a block of flats near the royal borough's main sewer reported difficulty flushing their toilets.

The project was so poorly conceived that there is no reliable electricity to run pumps and purification tanks, and no money left to connect homes to the main sewer lines, which now run uselessly beneath Falluja's streets, according to a report by federal investigators to be released Monday.

In its 2002 annual report, the authority valued all its sewer plants, sewer lines and equipment like trucks at $258 million; just $48 million was attributed to the main sewer lines.

In the late 1990s the homes were connected to a main sewer, and a nursery opened.

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.

Residents say the trouble was caused by a backup in the city's main sewer line.

The river was shown to be quite a main sewer collector.

During heavy showers, a trickling drain will quickly become a torrent, and a main sewer - or "trunk sewer" as they're called - can fill to the roof.

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

The city would probably pay for a main sewer line along the public road that runs through the cooperative.

Charles G. Sturcken, chief of staff at the city's environmental department, said his agency would continue to chlorinate and flush the main sewer lines, but added that mosquitoes "could be lodged in private sewer connections, just lying in wait".