Simply put, the sewage from our homes is combined with the sewers in the street before it is piped to the local sewage treatment plant control.

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The site, on the banks of the Humber Estuary at Salt End already has a big chemical processor, a power station and a sewage treatment plant.

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Salonika's new but unfinished sewage-treatment plant wafts its fragrance across the otherwise attractive waterfront.

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The results include a common sewage-treatment plant in Gubin, and a school in Guben where classes are taught in both German and Polish.

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While the swim might seem likely to get cut, Korff cited a 2011 fire at a sewage-treatment plant that led to millions of gallons of waste flowing into the Hudson.

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The power generated helps run the sewage treatment works next to the United Utilities plant.

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Other times the attacks are more personal:In 2000 a discontented consultant, rejected for a job at a water treatment plant in Australia, remotely hacked into a sewage treatment system and released 264, 000 gallons of raw sewage into rivers and parks.

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