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pumping-station

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  • Premature wear of pumping-station valve fittings and gaskets caused by equipment vibration was the culprit behind several of 14 spills during Keystone's first year of operations, Vern Meier , head of TransCanada's U.S. pipeline operations, said at a press conference Wednesday.

    Cause of Keystone Spills Fixed Edward Welsch 2011

  • Premature wear of pumping-station valve fittings and gaskets caused by equipment vibration was the culprit behind several of 14 spills during Keystone's first year of operations, Vern Meier , head of TransCanada's U.S. pipeline operations, said at a press conference Wednesday.

    Cause of Keystone Spills Fixed Edward Welsch 2011

  • If you knew the trouble we had in getting the city council to spend the money and cover the pumping-station with vines!

    Main Street 2004

  • But we have an old pumping-station that we are going to convert at considerable expense.

    Bravo … Encore! Salute our Ballet, Opera and Symphony 1987

  • The figures showing the cost for sand handling do not include any charge for the quantity of water used, that item having been carried on the pumping-station account.

    Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXXII, June, 1911 Water Purification Plant, Washington, D. C. Results of Operation. E. D. Hardy

  • The drainage-system consists of underground sewers, which are discharged by a pumping-station into a natural depression to the eastward, called the Salt Lake.

    Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various

  • General Hall occupied Santólan and the pumping-station there and repelled the repeated attacks made on his column.

    The Philippine Islands John Foreman

  • A "sausage" balloon anchored to the ground, a pumping-station and four square-shaped water-troughs, and a dozen or so shanties built of sandbags and rusted iron, dotted the green-and-brown landscape.

    Pushed and the Return Push George Herbert Fosdike Nichols

  • If you knew the trouble we had in getting the city council to spend the money and cover the pumping-station with vines!

    Main Street 1920

  • If you knew the trouble we had in getting the city council to spend the money and cover the pumping-station with vines!

    Main Street Sinclair Lewis 1918

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