intercepting sewer

intercepting sewer

[‚in·tər′sep·tiŋ ′sü·ər]
(civil engineering)
A sewer that receives flow from transverse sewers and conducts the water to a treatment plant or disposal point.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

intercepting sewer

A sewer which receives the dry-weather flow from a number of branch sewers or outlets (and sometimes a determined quantity of storm water).
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Architecture and Construction. Copyright © 2003 by McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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