Sentence examples for sewer valves from inspiring English sources
Sewer valves and supply lines can become brittle during freezing weather.
Never force your sewer valve to open or close or handle your hoses until the temperature rises above freezing.
Without fanfare, the city has already kicked in $28 million to upgrade waterlines, valves, sewers and electrical conduits because the infrastructure was allowed to deteriorate after major shipbuilding at the Navy Yard moved south in the era of President Lyndon B. Johnson.
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.
"It's kind of like a check valve on a sewer line".
Install a check valve for backup sewer.
When investigators arrived this fall, they found that the manholes and control valves had been padlocked on a principal sewer line by an irate contractor who had not been paid for a small part of the work that was supposed to have been financed by the Iraqi government.
But the report, which was completed in February 2006, said the transit agency appeared to have neglected regular maintenance of the system of pipes and valves that drain water from the tracks into the city sewer system.
Install backflow valves or plugs in your drains, toilets, and any other sewer connections to keep the flood waters out.
That caused a rising tide throughout Brooklyn's sewers, and untreated feces and industrial waste started spilling from emergency relief valves into the Upper New York Bay and Gowanus Canal.
