Sentence examples for sewers from from inspiring English sources

The ACE speculates that birds that eat carp may be transporting bits of DNA around; or, because carp is a popular Asian delicacy, the DNA may be emerging in the storm sewers from the distant tables of Chicago's Chinatown.

Their moisture-holding leaves, which make them nearly maintenance free, save sewers from being overtaxed by the run-off of new developments; the spiky carpets can lower the temperature of a building -- and a neighborhood -- by seven degrees or more.

But they say that excluding sewers from any environmentally sensitive area larger than 25 acres is too broad, and can lead to the development of smaller areas with threatened and endangered species.

Run by a coalition of manufacturers, a nonprofit organization and a technical college, the program runs for six months, two or three nights a week, and teaches novices how to be industrial sewers, from handling a sewing machine to working with vinyl and canvas.

From 1940 to 1975, the Seaplane Lagoon received about 300 million gallons of waste-water from industrial and storm sewers from NAS Alameda.

The parent alkylphenol polyethoxylates may be discharged into the sewers from both domestic cleaning products (Bennie 1999) and from more specialized industrial users.

"The sewer from Leicester Square through Whitehall is about two metres high and several metres wide and it can become completely clogged with fatbergs," he says.

The Thames Tideway tunnel, a 16-mile (25km) sewer from Acton to Abbey Mills, is intended to prevent raw sewage flooding into the Thames during heavy rain.

To prevent this, Thames Water, the UK's largest water company, wants to build a £4.2bn, 16-mile (25km) sewer from Acton to Abbey Mills to stop raw sewage flooding into the Thames during heavy rains.

Thames Water, the UK's largest water company, wants to build a £4.2bn, 16-mile (25km) sewer from Acton to Abbey Mills to stop raw sewage flooding into the Thames during heavy rains.

His cartoons — represented here by a slimy dark-jowled Nixon crawling out of a sewer, from 1954 — so distressed Nixon in the Watergate era that he eventually canceled his subscription to The Washington Post, where Herblock's cartoons appeared.