pumping-station

• “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.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Cause of Keystone Spills Fixed

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

  Bravo … Encore! Salute our Ballet, Opera and Symphony

• “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"

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

  The Philippine Islands

• “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

• “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.

• “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

• “Then the dread whisper goes round that the man in charge of the pumping-station has neglected his duty, and the engine fires are cold.”

  The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance

• “At first people said that the town well was full of rotting cottonwood roots, but the engineer at the pumping-station convinced the mayor that the water left the well untainted.”

  The song of the lark

• “The use of water on such a small scale is rarely economically practicable, as even if the water is available in the vicinity of the pumping-station, considerable work has generally to be executed at the point of supply, not only to store the water in sufficient bulk at such”

  The Sewerage of Sea Coast Towns

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