Didn't Joseph Bazalgette stop the Thames being a Victorian sewer by building tunnels that carried off human waste to the Romanesque pumping stations of Crossness and Abbey Mills?
The uprising was crushed street by street and sewer by sewer, amid some of the worst atrocities of the entire war.Alexandra Richie's detailed and sympathetic history paints the foreground and background to this story.
For the first few decades of the 20th century, he was largely seen as an unsavory emblem of corruption and self-destruction, the one called a "sewer" by the reactionary Uncle Matthew in Nancy Mitford's "Pursuit of Love".
The action starts in 1988, when young Georgie Denbrough (Jackson Robert Scott), floating a paper boat in the street during a rainstorm, is pulled into the sewer by the clown and never seen again.
In a wonderfully edited and reconstructed sequence, Coffey and Theodore find Rodriguez in 1969, playing a club called The Sewer By The Sea, moving from the mist on the dock into the smoke of the club to find a man playing with his back to audience.
The best way to protect reefs, he says, is to "stop treating the atmosphere like a sewer" by dumping CO2 into it, where the pollutant alters the climate and acidifies the oceans.
Although Miguel Restrepo is legally homeless and could be forced out of the sewer by local authorities at any minute, he describes the cramped space he shares with his wife and dog as a great place to live.
I walked into the party during the scene from It where Georgie was being lured into the sewer by Pennywise.
Domestic and industrial waste from the cities built up along the river, "essentially turning the main-stem river into an open sewer by the 1920s".
