drainage system
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drainage
noun[U]
uk/ˈdreɪ.nɪdʒ/us/ˈdreɪ.nɪdʒ/
the system of water or waste liquids flowing away from somewhere into the ground or ...
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system
noun
uk/ˈsɪs.təm/us/ˈsɪs.təm/
a set of connected things or devices that ...
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After some initial success the drainage commissioners found themselves immersed in legal wranglings with landowners and maintenance of thedrainagesystemlargely fell into abeyance.
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The use of swales is an economical and ecological drainage management strategy - significantly cheaper than the installation of a conventional pipeddrainagesystem.
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Leaching through the subsurfacedrainagesystemdecreased soil salinity and lowered the water table.
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Similarly, operations and maintenance of the irrigation anddrainagesystemthrough performance contracts awarded to the private sector is steadily progressing.
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An adequate subsoildrainagesystemrequires sufficient water to generate enough velocity to prevent suspended matter silting drains.
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Owing to the nature of the soil and the light rainfall there is no generaldrainagesystem.
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Fens were massive, nineteenth-century public projects that addressed public health problems, provided building space and served as a stormdrainagesystem.
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Tectonic controls on the development of the landscape anddrainagesystemare evident.
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Because the urinals and toilets were all connected to running water and adrainagesystem, ventilation never became the problem that it was for the lavatory's cast-iron predecessor.
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Frankfurt managed to finance its maindrainagesystemfrom the sale of town property without ever going into debt.
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She had built cottages, and had supplied the village with fresh water and adrainagesystem, not items of expenditure that had been a priority for her father.
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They also view these changes as a threat to their traditional control over the irrigation anddrainagesystemin particular, and the social structure (feudal system) in general.
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The grass steadily grows more rank, and, in the boggy patches where thedrainagesystemseems to have failed, tussocks and rushes have completely ousted the smooth sward.
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The reason is that the river outfalls, upon which the wholedrainagesystemdepends, must be kept properly covered.
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Almost all water gets into thedrainagesystem.
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Naturally the district council has taken over thedrainagesystemand also widened the road which passes between the cottages.
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We have adrainagesystemand no water to flush it and no water for the people to drink.
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