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sewage treatment plant
noun
chiefly US
: a place where sewage is cleaned so that it is not harmful or dangerous to the environment
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Three days later, she was found dead in a sewage treatment plant more than nine miles away.
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Fernando Cervantes Jr., USA TODAY, 13 Dec. 2024
The result is around $125 million that Barbados will spend towards sewage treatment plant upgrades to boost water supplies and reduce the amount of pollution going into the Caribbean.
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Amy Feldman, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2024
All our resorts have an on-site sewage treatment plant, with the facility to discard treated wastewater beyond the reefs into the deep sea, as recommended by the Ministry of Tourism in the Maldives.
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Shrikant Dash, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
That’s the thing about public infrastructure: Show us the community that wants a new highway or sewage treatment plant, or even new railroad tracks built in their backyard.
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Baltimore Sun Editorial Board, Baltimore Sun, 22 July 2024
On the south side of the border, the Mexican military is rebuilding a crippled sewage treatment plant in Baja California that has discharged 40 million gallons of wastewater per day into the ocean.
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Tammy Murga, Los Angeles Times, 19 July 2024
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Boise-area sewage treatment plant violated clean-water law 16 times.
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Angela Palermo, Idaho Statesman, 21 June 2024
The Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District started making Milorganite – named after Milwaukee organic nitrogen – at the city’s sewage treatment plant on Jones Island in 1926.
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Caitlin Looby, Journal Sentinel, 23 May 2024
The sewage flowed out to Lake Michigan, where it was diluted and then pumped right back into people's homes and businesses.
Jones Island, once home to a village of Kashubian fisherfolk, became home to the city’s sewage treatment plant in 1925.
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Caitlin Looby, Journal Sentinel, 11 Jan. 2024
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“Sewage treatment plant.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sewage%20treatment%20plant. Accessed 22 Feb. 2025.
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