BROKEN SEWAGE PIPING ONLINE.Byline: David Greenberg The creator of this article, or someone who has substantially contributed to it, may have a conflict of interest regarding its subject matter. It may require cleanup to comply with Wikipedia's content policies, particularly neutral point of view. Daily News Staff Writer The heavy rains that fell on Valentine's Day Valentine's Day: see Saint Valentine's Day. Valentine's Day Lovers' holiday celebrated on February 14, the feast day of St. Valentine, one of two 3rd-century Roman martyrs of the same name. St. did not break the bond of a repaired sewer main Noun 1. sewer main - a main in a sewage system sewer line main - a principal pipe in a system that distributes water or gas or electricity or that collects sewage , which returned to service late Friday - 10 days after a break allowed nearly 80 million gallons of effluent to spill into the Arroyo Conejo. ``The flows are coming into the treatment plant as normally would be expected during this type of weather,'' said Kurt Reithmayr, engineering division manager for the city public works department Many governments worldwide have had departments or ministries referred to as the Public Works Department either formally or informally. In Australia: - New South Wales -
Flow rates total up to 20 million gallons a day during rainy weather because of the water seeping into the system from sewer manholes, he said. The average flow for a dry day is 9 million gallons, Reithmayr said. Public works public works pl.n. Construction projects, such as highways or dams, financed by public funds and constructed by a government for the benefit or use of the general public. Noun 1. employees first discovered the break at 5:30 a.m. Feb. 3 when meters showed the flow rates from one of two mayor sewer lines into the Hill Canyon Treatment Plant had dropped to nothing. Workers later found that a 60-foot-long reinforced concrete reinforced concrete Concrete in which steel is embedded in such a manner that the two materials act together in resisting forces. The reinforcing steel—rods, bars, or mesh—absorbs the tensile, shear, and sometimes the compressive stresses in a concrete pipe, measuring 30 inches in diameter, had broken away from the main about a quarter-mile upstream from the plant. A steel pipe slightly less than 30 inches in diameter was inserted into both ends of the main, with closures placed on each connecting point and concrete poured over the entire section. The pipe failed to hold and washed downstream. The sewage flow forced the closure of nearly 30 miles of beach, but health officials have said the break did not significantly damage the environment because the sewage is heavily diluted by rainwater. |
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