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Sewage systems

Sewage systems

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I need description of sewage systems, article or catalogues to get acquainted with language terminology in the area. Thank You in advancesmile

RE: Sewage systems

Wastewater Engineering by Metcalf and Eddy is very popular.

Wastewater Treatment Plants: Design, construction and operation by Syed Qasim.

Urban Drainage by Butler and Davies.

But there are heaps of other books no the market.

RE: Sewage systems

I'm not into civil and sewage, but could this be the engineering field where the use of euphemisms and sophisticated nomenclature reaches its summum?

RE: Sewage systems


I often find good books at my local university bookstore.

Another good source is other university web sites. They will often have the class notes posted and available for download. Sometimes these are useless without the class textbook or attendance in the classroom but sometimes they are a very good stand alone source of information. Best of al they are free.

Rick Kitson MBA P.Eng

Construction Project Management
From conception to completion
www.kitsonengineering.com

RE: Sewage systems

I often find better engineering advice in forums related to specific subjects.  For instance, I would not look for sewage system advice in a forum named "Engineering Language/Grammar Skills".

RE: Sewage systems

Try "wastewater treatment" also, and "sewerage systems".

jimbo

Buy a dictionary, keep it nearby and USE it. Webster's New World Dictionary of American English is recommended, and Webster's Collegiate Dictionary.

RE: Sewage systems

I have to disagree TheTick.  I too initially thought this post was in the completely wrong place, but I can see how if the poster is asking for specifics on the language used then this forum is not completely off-base.  

Of course, I'm with epoisses, and would love to see some examples of how the...'matter' is dealt with.

RE: Sewage systems


It’s an area where the terms are usually fairly blunt. Fecal matter, organic material or just plain $hit.




Rick Kitson MBA P.Eng

Construction Project Management
From conception to completion
www.kitsonengineering.com

RE: Sewage systems

I will never forget my first lecture on "Public Health Engineering 101", in which the lecturer started by announcing:

"It may be s**t to you, but it's bread and butter to me."

RE: Sewage systems

JulianHardy, RDK
Are you aware that s**t  is an acromym?  Ship High In Transit, Labled so that the collection of exposive gases does not accumulate in the bottom of the transport container (boat, ox cart, rail car)
Hydrae

RE: Sewage systems

hydrae,

It is just possible that someone made up an acronym after the fact (or more likely, it is just an "urban myth"), but I assure, you, "s**t" is a venerable Old English word, which predates the invention of acronyms by several hundred years!

Use of the word in the sense of "excrement" dates from 1585 or earlier. Despite what you may have been told or read in an e-mail, "s**t" is NOT an acronym. Refer for example to:

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=shit

RE: Sewage systems

Oh Julian, and you were doing so well with your polite little fig-leafy stars until you pasted that URL in.

A.

RE: Sewage systems

My favorite euphamism was when I heard an industry civil engineer refer to one of the more obvious raw sewage components as "brown trout", force mains as "trout streams" and the entire treatment plant as a "trout farm". Everything seemed so clean and rosy when he talked about it.

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RE: Sewage systems

That's an interesting link, CBL. To quote from the article:

"This Mekong giant catfish was weighed at 646 pounds by researchers working on a project to identify, study and conserve large freshwater fish around the world."

Further down the article, it states that the fish was eaten.

RE: Sewage systems

Brown Trout Floating About...

RE: Sewage systems

A friend of mine was a "Maitenance Technician" at a Ski Lodge. They carried 2 way radios and occasionally there would be a "Finless Brown Emergency" announced on the radio. That meant grab the plunger and run.

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