How to Use sewerage in a Sentence

sewerage

noun
  • By federal law, the sewerage district is allowed six overflows per year.
    — Caitlin Looby, jsonline.com, 15 Aug. 2025
  • But the sewerage district did not fine the company for the mercury violations.
    — John Diedrich, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 Nov. 2017
  • Detroit police, fire and water and sewerage services will be provided as normal.
    — Tanya Wildt, Detroit Free Press, 29 Mar. 2018
  • There was no sewerage system in place, and the lavatories amounted to sixty buckets housed outside, beneath an oblong tent.
    — Simon Parkin, Time, 2 Nov. 2022
  • London's existing sewerage network dates back to the second half of the 1800s.
    — Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 6 Dec. 2023
  • The sewerage district is required to submit a report to the DNR within five days of an overflow.
    — Caitlin Looby, jsonline.com, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Neither is close to being as important as clean water, sewerage, gas, electricity, and the telephone.
    — Martin Wolf, Foreign Affairs, 1 July 2015
  • City water bills are calculated based on water usage, sewage disposal, and flat service charges for water, sewerage and drainage.
    — Nushrat Rahman, Detroit Free Press, 28 June 2022
  • Medieval cities, lacking adequate hygiene or sewerage, were ravaged, and rural villages fared no better.
    — Kevin Baker, Harper's Magazine, 23 June 2020
  • How did Milwaukee's sewerage district decide to do a sewer overflow during historic flood?
    — Caitlin Looby, jsonline.com, 19 Sep. 2025
  • The sewerage district has also already invested hundreds-of-millions of dollars in flood prevention work, per the release.
    — Chris Ramirez, jsonline.com, 17 Apr. 2026
  • There is no sewerage system, no garbage collection, not even sufficient water to handle the proliferation of people and new homes.
    — Julie Satow, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2023
  • The Legislature also refused to allow the city to impose a 1-cent sales tax to pay for water and sewerage improvements.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2022
  • And there are many other places in the world where a lack of proper sewerage and inadequate vaccination might allow something similar to happen.
    — The Economist, 28 June 2018
  • Veolia is a contractor of the sewerage district and runs the South Shore facility.
    — Caitlin Looby, jsonline.com, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Nearby are many colonias, unincorporated slum-like areas where the poor live, lacking running water and sewerage.
    — The Economist, 22 June 2019
  • Each, however, tells a different type of story—of sewerage, of shipping and of funeral practices—that might otherwise remain untold.
    — The Economist, 4 July 2019
  • The possible lawsuit is to be discussed at the sewerage commission's Monday meeting, according to the agenda.
    — Tom Daykin, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 May 2021
  • Then the sewerage district — Shafer specifically — can shut the gate to the tunnel, initiating a combined sewer overflow.
    — Caitlin Looby, jsonline.com, 22 Aug. 2025
  • The sewerage district urges residents to save laundry and dishes for another day, take shorter showers and empty rain barrels regularly.
    — Chris Ramirez, jsonline.com, 17 Apr. 2026
  • The area's sewerage district is replacing concrete channels built in the 1960s with more natural creeks to try to prevent future flooding.
    — Ben Tracy, CBS News, 30 Sep. 2021
  • According to the sewerage district, workers from Veolia released the wastewater into a storm sewer rather than a sanitary sewer.
    — Caitlin Looby, jsonline.com, 19 Sep. 2025
  • The tiny home is already outfitted with hot and cold water pipes, electricity wiring, sockets, and box LED lights, and all of the sewerage amenities are also in place.
    — Stephanie Osmanski, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 Oct. 2025
  • The tiny home is already outfitted with hot and cold water pipes, electricity wiring, sockets, and box LED lights, and all of the sewerage amenities are also in place.
    — Stephanie Osmanski, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 Sep. 2025
  • The tiny home is already outfitted with hot and cold water pipes, electricity wiring, sockets, and box LED lights, and all of the sewerage amenities are also in place.
    — Stephanie Osmanski, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 Nov. 2025
  • The Bayou Pattasat and Bayou Vincent projects are among a series of seven drainage/sewerage/street repair projects the city will soon embark upon.
    — Bob Warren, NOLA.com, 7 Feb. 2018
  • Council members voted against an ordinance in July that would have rolled forward the sewerage millage, as well as millages for general alimony and fire protection.
    — Staff Report, NOLA.com, 13 Oct. 2020
  • The exhaust is put through pollution prevention equipment before being released into the atmosphere, according to the release from the sewerage district.
    — Caitlin Looby, Journal Sentinel, 18 Oct. 2022
  • The report emphasized the economic importance of the dam and river system, and that the human and commercial costs of the contamination extend to farm dams between and around the sewerage plants.
    — Tawanda Karombo, Quartz Africa, 28 Feb. 2021
  • During an overflow, people in the sewerage district’s service area are encouraged to take shorter showers, hold off on doing laundry or dishes, and regularly empty their rain barrels.
    — Ben Steele, jsonline.com, 10 Aug. 2025

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