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2. Vacuum truck - Wikipedia

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   Vacuum truck. A vacuum truck, vacuum tanker, vactor truck, vactor, vac-con truck, vac-con is a tank truck that has a pump and a tank. The pump is designed to pneumatically suck liquids, sludges, slurries, or the like from a location (often underground) into the tank of the truck. The objective is to enable transport of the liquid material via ...

3. Vacuum sewer - Wikipedia

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   A vacuum sewer or pneumatic sewer system is a method of transporting sewage from its source to a sewage treatment plant. It maintains a partial vacuum , with an air pressure below atmospheric pressure inside the pipe network and vacuum station collection vessel.

4. San José–Santa Clara Regional Wastewater Facility - Wikipedia

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   In the 1880s, San Jose built a simple sewage disposal system that discharged untreated wastewater directly into the San Francisco Bay. It was the largest sewage disposal system in the South Bay, with enough capacity for 250,000 people despite a population under 15,000, in order to discharge organic waste from the city's many fruit canneries.

5. Pumping station - Wikipedia

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   Pumping stations in sewage collection systems are normally designed to handle raw sewage that is fed from underground gravity pipelines (pipes that are sloped so that a liquid can flow in one direction under gravity). Sewage is fed into and stored in a pit, commonly known as a wet well. The well is equipped with electrical instrumentation to ...

6. Sanitary truck overturns, spills 1,000 gallons of sewage on ...

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   SEWAGE SPILL: CHP says a truck lost control, hit a car, and overturned, spilling 1K gallons of human waste. Both directions of the freeway are experiencing massive delays.

7. Hyperion sewage treatment plant - Wikipedia

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   Until 1925, raw sewage from Los Angeles was discharged untreated directly into Santa Monica Bay in the region of the Hyperion Treatment Plant. [3] With the population increase, the amount of sewage became a major problem to the beaches, so in 1925 the city built a simple screening plant in the 200 acres (0.81 km 2) it had acquired in 1892. [3]