In this particular case, residents were assessed a sewer tax in the Northern Estates subdivision of Indianapolis.
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For sure, a sewer made much less than a prostitute, but a sewer could live a respectable life.
The "no dig" technique involves inserting a liner impregnated with a special resin into a sewer or drain.
"The drug discovery pipeline ended up becoming more of a sewer pipe, and it clogged, " says Merck Senior Vice President Stephen Friend.
Of all the ways to get in touch with London's history, sticking your nose in a sewer might not seem the most appealing.
Rain falls free, but someone has to spend money and deploy skills in getting it to the tap, and removing it in a sewer.
In Plymouth, engineers are surveying a major route into the city to find out if a sewer has collapsed or has a serious blockage.
One side mission had me tracking down a group of color-coordinated escaped mutant animals living in a sewer, tempting them out with Pizza and killing them.
Only three-fifths of the people of Shanghai live in buildings connected to a sewer, and barely 3% of the inhabitants of Jakarta have access to the main drains.
And the water that flushes sewers is literally beyond them (in Dharavi it is actually below them: a sewer lies under the slum, but no one can afford a connection).
One burnt corpse was found half buried in a sewer, next to the remains of a grocery shop - its torso covered by piles of burnt chillies and other spices.
Washed into a sewer, Remy lands in Paris, where he makes himself known to a young man, Alfredo Linguini (Lou Romano), who has inherited a famous restaurant but cannot crack an egg.
This was the theory behind Canadian artist Peter von Tiesenhausen's decision to bury a sculpture almost four metres underground, beneath a sewer at the main crossroads in the city of Sarnia, Ontario.
Their front yard was torn up after replacing a sewer line, so instead of replacing the dirt with grass, one Oak Park woman put in a vegetable garden and now the city is seeing green.
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Projects which have already been supported by the University Challenge and Science Enterprise Challenge include a sewer robot - resembling a giant, jointed brush - developed by Durham Pipeline Technology, set up by Durham University.
If carbon sources were charged for their use of the atmosphere as a sewer, and alternatives given the same breaks as oil, we would have a free market that might just save our crazy butts.
Two years later, Sasha is executive director of the organization, she has raised tens of thousands of dollars and the group has made micro-grants for more than 20 projects, from building a sewer system to installing electricity, in Rwanda and Uganda.
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Not to be confused with a house boat which is mobile and can move around a floating home is permanently attached to a dock, is connected to a sewer system and does not have its own means of propulsion.
Levels of phosphates in fresh waterways can be much higher than normal because of contamination from municipal and domestic wastewater, whether you're hooked up to a sewer or have a septic system, says Helen Suh MacIntosh, an associate professor in environmental health at Harvard University.
"Even though we all realise that the Bagmati - where we will all be cremated at some point - has turned into a sewer it is nevertheless a sociological phenomenon that the public while realising it, is not been able to do anything about, " he said.
Is it a leaking sewer, or does it come from waste from a pig farm that has been washed downstream?
Denis Lavant valiantly throws himself into the role of a vengeful sewer-dwelling creature as the story careens from the slaughter of innocents to a courtroom circus and an execution.
Stay with essential-purpose revenue bonds, whether it be a water and sewer authority or a highway authority, something like that.
The breach caused part of a road to collapse and threatened a major sewer.
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East Riding of Yorkshire Council said that an underground spring might have caused damage to a nearby sewer.
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The Wandle, once dubbed a "sewer" because of waste from tanneries flowing into it during the industrial revolution, was cleaned up by environmentalists.
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If re-elected, Obama will turn this country into a socialist sewer.
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Most of the time in the history of medicine, the best way to end disease was to build a better sewer and get people to wash their hands.
During her five-day cruise, a water line broke in the hallway ceiling near her cabin, and a separate sewer line broke outside the main dining hall, she said.
He added that the council planned to install a new sewer system in the waterfront area as part of its redevelopment and that would help resolve the flooding problems in Dock Street.
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