Sentence examples for overflow sewers from inspiring English sources

During storms and floods, when the trunk sewers fill to bursting, the excess water spills into the smaller overflow sewers, which, acting like safety valves, run out into the Thames.

And in many cities, a mild thunder storm is enough to overflow sewers and release sewage into fresh water supplies.

Thames Water wants to spend up to £3 billion on a giant overflow sewer to cope with such events in the future.

The health implications of blocked and overflowing sewers are obvious.

There is a long record of complaints about overflowing sewers in the borough.

He also cited dontflush.me, a citizen-designed web tool to advise New York residents about overflowing sewers.

Overflowing sewers were dealt with in places such as Bristol in the late 1990s; prices have been higher outside the capital as a result.

(There was some logic in it. Polio, an intestinal virus, peaks in summer, and is more common in cities with overflowing sewers than in rural areas with outhouses).

The new plan will include money to restore the city's rotting and overflowing sewers, said local officials who had been briefed on aspects of the plan.

For all the rhetoric about revolution and social change, the Chávez era also has brought Venezuelans soaring food prices, overflowing sewers and a surge in gang violence.

They replaced the hard paving of streets and sidewalks, which directs rainfall into easily overflowing sewers, with porous mesh-and-concrete membranes that have the absorbency of unpaved earth.