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Two scuppers cut into either side of this outdoor stairwell prevent water from building up and making the stairs slippery. A scupper is an opening in the side walls of a vessel or an open-air structure, which allows water to drain instead of pooling within the bulwark or gunwales of a vessel, or within the curbing or walls of a building. Ship's ...
Leader heads can also receive water from scuppers, which are used predominantly through flat roofs’ parapets. In those cases, the leader head provides the transition from scupper to downspout. Leader heads can be incorporated into a rain water harvesting system, by helping direct the water into collection cisterns.
Water that does not drain off the side of the deck or through a hole in the hull, which it would typically do via a scupper, instead drains down into the ship into the bilge. This water may be from rough seas, rain, leaks in the hull or stuffing box , or other interior spillage.
The thing is tariffs could scupper any growth and Downing Street will have to hope that it can talk the president out of them. And if President Trump demands vast increases in defence spending ...
While Liverpool do still have a game in hand, Arteta is certain that a re-energised title race will continue to twist and turn. ... (1-0 at home and 2-0 away) to scupper Arsenal’s title challenge.
A cutaway diagram of a Dorade Box. The red arrows show the desired airflow (into the cabin) and the blue arrows show the desired water flow (out of the integral scupper onto the deck). The grey area indicates the deck of the boat.
A culvert under the Vistula river levee and a street in Warsaw. Construction or installation at a culvert site generally results in disturbance of the site's soil, stream banks, or stream bed, and can result in the occurrence of unwanted problems such as scour holes or slumping of banks adjacent to the culvert structure.
Mark Zuckerberg’s plan to build a nuclear-powered AI data centre have been scuppered by the discovery of a rare species of bee on the proposed site.. The chief executive of Meta – the parent ...