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What is a Sewerage?
• Sewerage is the infrastructure that conveys sewage or surface runoff
(stormwater, meltwater, rainwater) using sewers. It encompasses
components such as receiving drains, manholes, pumping stations,
storm overflows, and screening chambers of the combined sewer or
sanitary sewer. Sewerage ends at the entry to a sewage treatment
plant or at the point of discharge into the environment. It is the
system of pipes, chambers, manholes, etc. that conveys the sewage
or storm water.
• It is also an alternate noun for the word sewage
Types
• Combined sewer-a sewage collection system of pipes and tunnels
designed to simultaneously collect surface runoff and sewage water
in a shared system.
During dry weather (and small
storms), all flows are handled by
the publicly owned treatment
works (POTW). During large
storms, the relief structure allows
some of the combined stormwater
and sewage to be discharged
untreated to an adjacent water
body.
Types
• Simplified sewerage-a sewer system that collects all household
wastewater (blackwater and greywater) in small-diameter pipes laid
at fairly flat gradients.