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unusual facts about sewage



A. Baldwin Wood

While he spent most of his career in New Orleans, Wood also consulted and designed the drainage, pumping, and sewage systems for other locations including Chicago, Milwaukee, Baltimore, San Francisco, as well as projects in Canada, Egypt, China, and India.

Allen Hazen

For many years, the Passaic River below Paterson, New Jersey was highly contaminated with sewage and industrial wastes, which was a nuisance to the cities below and which made it impossible to use the river water for any purpose.

Amoebiasis

The most dramatic incident in the USA was the Chicago World's Fair outbreak in 1933 caused by contaminated drinking water; defective plumbing permitted sewage to contaminate water.

Arabtec

Documents which had been obtained by the BBC clearly show that a month previous to the television crews' visit, the Dubai municipality described the sewage situation at the site as critical.

Bruce Allan Clark

During his time as mayor, Clark achieved success for the town in a variety of ways, perhaps most notable is the cleanup project of Glace Bay's sewage area, spearheading the development of Renwick Brook.

Carkeek Park

The park went through a few themes over years, from outdoor performance venue, to farm for zoo animal feed, to pasturage rental, to park with WPA Civilian Conservation Corps construction (1933-–36, removed in 1938), to U.S. Army camp (just in 1942), to sewage treatment plant (over vigorous opposition by neighborhoods groups).

Cherokee Sewer Site

The Cherokee Sewer Site is a multi-component Prehistoric Indian Archaic bison processing site excavated in 1973 and 1976 near the sewage treatment plant of Cherokee, Iowa, United States; it is not associated with the Cherokee tribe.

Cosy Prisons

It was filmed at the Abbey Mills Pumping Station, Abbey Lane, London, E15, a former sewage pumping station built in the 1860s.

Cruise ship pollution in the United States

Legislation to regulate cruise ship discharges of sewage, graywater, and bilge water nationally was introduced in the 109th Congress, but there was no further congressional action.

Edward D. Goldberg

One of Goldberg's earliest studies on ocean pollution concerned sewage in Santa Monica Bay.

Fred Gardiner

The trunk sewers and sewage treatment plant for the Don Mills development was financed by its developer, E. P. Taylor, when North York Township could not.

Frederick Gottlieb

He has served as former chair of the Water and Sewage Board, chair of Bahamasair and chair of Bahamas Electricity Corporation (B.E.C).

Frederick W. V. Blees

He was responsible for the construction of several of the town's commercial buildings and the town's first sewage system; founded the local horseless carriage factory, the first theater, and the First National Bank of Macon; and financed the paving of the town's streets on a 50-50 basis with the city.

Gerald Calabrese

From 1960 until January 1991, Calabrese was employed by the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities, retiring as the director of water and sewage.

Halifax Harbour Solutions

The CAD $333 million project will construct three sewage treatment plants and connect various sewage pipe networks with lift stations to treat all sanitary sewage in the former cities of Halifax and Dartmouth.

Ingestion

An intermediate step is often involved, such as drinking water contaminated by faeces or food prepared by workers who fail to practice adequate hand-washing, and is more common in regions where untreated sewage is common.

Jefferson County, Alabama

In February 2011, Lesley Curwen of the BBC World Service interviewed David Carrington, the newly appointed president of the county commission, about the risk of defaulting on bonds issued to finance “what could be the most expensive sewage system in history.”

Jungnangcheon

Uijeongbu city government reported its plan to build more ecologically-friendly sewage disposal plants.

Karl, Count Chotek of Chotkow and Wognin

He also advocated for the first horsecar in Prague and the steamboat trip on Elbe river, and for the expansion of Prague's sewage system and street lighting.

Kilnhurst

To the south of the village, on an area sandwiched between the two railway lines that served the village, the Sheffield City sewage department ran a tip between 1892 and 1959, which was used to dump sewage sludge from the Blackburn Meadows sewage treatment works at Tinsley.

Lake Amatitlán

Each year large quantities of untreated sewage, industrial waste and a staggering 500,000 tons of sediment are carried into the lake through the Villalobos River.

Lambro

Despite the implementation of sewage treatment, overall water quality remained poor, until the major disaster of 23 February 2010, when unknown criminals poured into the river, near Villasanta, the contents of several silos containing oil and other hydrocarbons, all belonging to a company named "Lombardia Petroli".

Lawrence Experiment Station

Allen Hazen and George W. Fuller were in charge of some of the earliest research on sewage treatment and drinking water filtration.

Louis R. Douglass

He was initially charged with responsibility for sewers, sewage disposal and cantonments at Leon Springs, Texas (near San Antonio).

Luton Hoo railway station

The station building and platform still exist, sited next to a sewage works.

Mafia vs. Ninja

Two sewage workers, Jack Do (Alexander Lou) and Charlie Wu (Charlema Hsu) get mixed up in heavy business when their mobster boss gets assassinated by another mobster who wants to control Shanghai and overflow the streets with opium, along with the usual mafia-related affairs like gambling and prostitution.

Manuscripts and Special Collections, University of Nottingham Information Services

Records of river, drainage and water supply bodies in the East Midlands, including records of the Trent River Catchment Board; Trent River Board; Trent River Authority; Trent Fishery Board; Court of Sewers for the Level of Hatfield Chase; and The Hatfield Chase Corporation; Brigg Court of Lincolnshire Commissioners of Sewers; Trent Navigation Company; Records of the City of Nottingham Water Department; and records from Stoke Bardolph Sewage works and Bulcote Model Farm

Maudslay State Park

By 1950 the Merrimack River was for the most part devoid of marine and riverine life, due to chemical effluents from the cloth and paper mills upstream in Haverhill, Lawrence, Lowell, Manchester, New Hampshire and Concord, New Hampshire as well as the dumping of raw sewage into the river from every community on it.

Metropolitan Toronto

During his tenure, Metro built numerous infrastructure projects, including the opening of the first subway line, start of construction of the second subway line, water and sewage treatment facilities, rental housing for the aged and the Gardiner Expressway, named after Gardiner.

Natural experiment

Snow found that the Southwark and Vauxhall Waterworks Company, which supplied water to districts with high attack rates, obtained the water from the Thames downstream from where raw sewage was discharged into the river.

By contrast, districts that were supplied water by the Lambeth Waterworks Company, which obtained water upstream from the points of sewage discharge, had low attack rates.

Neabsco Creek

Congressman Tom Davis secured more than $4 million in funds to clean up the Dale Service Corporation's sewage treatment plant on Neabsco Creek.

Powers of Horror

The primary example for what causes such a reaction is the corpse (which traumatically reminds us of our own materiality); however, other items can elicit the same reaction: the open wound, shit, sewage, even the skin that forms on the surface of warm milk.

Pseudotocinclus juquiae

P. juquiae has also been found in the ribeirão Poço Grande, a tributary on the right margin of the Juquiá River; this locality, an old swamp area near the city of Juquiá, is heavily impacted by human activities, and is also used for garbage and sewage disposal.

Ribeirão Arrudas

Although most of the sources that make this important tributary of the Rio das Velhas are still clean, almost all sewage from Contagem and from Belo Horizonte is being dumped into Arrudas, which also jeopardizes Rio das Velhas Basin and Rio São Francisco Basin.

Singapore Green Plan 2012

The Deep Tunnel Sewerage System (DTSS) to be completed by 2008 will also ensure that sewage from all existing sewers will be carried to two centralised water reclamation plants in Changi and Tuas for treatment.

Stoke Aldermoor

Stoke Aldermoor is also known locally in Hollywood movie fame as the place where the famous Mini sewer chase was shot for the film The Italian Job, the Minis were lowered into the newly built sewers on the outskirts of Stoke Aldermoor and driven to the Finham Sewage Works.

The Wonderful Worlds of Wally McDoogle

Wally does many crazy things such as become a secret agent in My Life as a Screaming Skydiver, become the sewage director for his hometown in My Life as Polluted Pond Scum, scuba dive in My Life as a Torpedo Test Target, dance as the Sugar Plum Fairy in The Nutcracker in My Life as a Blundering Ballerina, travel through time in My Life as a Toasted Time Traveler, and stars in two movies in My Life as Alien Monster Bait and My Life as a Bigfoot Breathmint.

Tower houses in the Balkans

The tower in Teshovo in south Pirin, noted for its relatively sophisticated water conduit and sewage system, is also thought to date to the early Ottoman rule of Bulgaria and may well have been the residence of a local bey.

Ungampalayam

Now the river is a large Sewage and banks are full of the Prosopis juliflora or Seemai karuvel or Vilayati babul an invasive thorn bush.

Union County, South Carolina

Government programs like the CCC, PWA, and WPA put many Union County residents back to work, and government money helped improve the county's water and sewage plants and public roads.

WRc

The organisation began in 1927 as the Water Pollution Research Laboratory (WPL), based in Luton, part of the Civil Service, with a remit of providing research and advice on sewage treatment.


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