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  2. Grease trap - Wikipedia

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    Grease traps have been in use since the Victorian era; in the late 1800s, Nathaniel Whiting was granted the first patent. The quantity of fats, oils, greases, and solids (FOGS) that enter sewers is decreased by the traps. They consist of boxes within the drain run that flows between the sinks in a kitchen and the sewer system.

  3. Trap (plumbing) - Wikipedia

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    Water enters at right, fills the trap, and continues left. Inverted siphoning occurs below the line "A". Examples of traps. In plumbing, a trap is a U-shaped portion of pipe designed to trap liquid or gas to prevent unwanted flow; most notably sewer gases from entering buildings while allowing waste materials to pass through. In oil refineries ...

  4. Storm drain - Wikipedia

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    Storm drain grate on a street in Warsaw, Poland Storm drain with its pipe visible beneath it due to construction work. A storm drain, storm sewer (United Kingdom, U.S. and Canada), highway drain, [1] surface water drain/sewer (United Kingdom), or stormwater drain (Australia and New Zealand) is infrastructure designed to drain excess rain and ground water from impervious surfaces such as paved ...

  5. Check dam - Wikipedia

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    It is typically used in environments where the gully has a moderate slope (less than 10%), small drainage area, and in regions where flood flows do not typically carry large rocks or boulders. [ 17 ] [ 15 ] In nearly all instances, erosion control blankets, which are biodegradable open-weave blankets, are used in conjunction with check dams.

  6. Gully - Wikipedia

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    A gully is a landform created by running water, mass movement, or commonly a combination of both eroding sharply into soil or other relatively erodible material, typically on a hillside or in river floodplains or terraces.

  7. Sanitary manhole - Wikipedia

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    The purpose of the cone section is to reduce the openings from large chamber sizes to small cover sizes. In a masonry manhole, the bricks form a corbel inward to reduce the opening to a desired size. [14] In precast concrete, the cone section comes in two forms, concentric and eccentric. In a concentric cone section, the top opening is in the ...

  8. Burt the Saltwater Crocodile, Star of “Crocodile Dundee ...

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    Crocodile Dundee fans are mourning the loss of movie legend Burt the Saltwater crocodile.. On Sunday, Dec. 23., a representative for Crocosaurus Cove Darwin penned a sad Facebook post which ...

  9. Floor drain - Wikipedia

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    Usually, each floor drain is connected to a trap, to prevent sewer gases from escaping into indoors spaces. A floor sink is a type of floor drain primarily used as an indirect waste receptor. It is generally deeper than a standard floor drain and can have a full or partial grate, or no grate as required to accommodate the indirect waste pipes.