sewage plant

noun

US
: a place where sewage is cleaned so that it is not harmful or dangerous to the environment

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If the city fails clean up the sewage plant’s act, it could be fined up to about $45,000 more. — Rose Evans, Idaho Statesman, 14 Aug. 2025 Chaudhry, meanwhile, features as a whistleblowing sewage plant worker. — Diana Lodderhose, Deadline, 15 Jan. 2026 Eruzione was a grinder, a ham-and-egger, the son of a pizza shop bartender and sewage plant worker from Winthrop, Mass. — Ian O'Connor, New York Times, 6 Dec. 2025 Under a country club contract signed in 1988, the district supplies the club with reclaimed water from its sewage plant to irrigate its two golf courses, the report said. — Theresa Clift, Sacbee.com, 26 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for sewage plant

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