Voorbeelden van cesspool

• Yet the substitution of a public drainage network for the private cesspool was perceived by some as an attack on domestic autonomy.

• Good systems included either the municipal sewer or a septic tank with leach field, and poor systems included cesspools and portables.

• Until the mid-nineteenth century, such refuse was generally collected in cesspools (enclosed pits dug into the ground) which were periodically emptied by manual labor.

• The artificial light, shining into the dark filthy-looking cavern or cesspool, threw the adjacent houses into a deep shade.

• While the cesspool appears simple, manageable, the sewer is represented as a source of confusion and complexity, as the image of the labyrinth suggests.

• As a result, cesspools and privy vaults often flooded; cesspools had to be emptied far more often.

• The idea of sewerage as a chaotic and unwieldy system of waste management emerges clearly in those tracts which compare the sewer unfavorably to its predecessor, the cesspool.

• Although the island is "a great cemetery" lying "under the hot sun of the tropics" (124), it is not the cesspool of pestilence and poison that it should be.

• But local building by-laws require the position of cesspools, etc.

• My local authority last year charged me half the sewerage charge and also a sum for emptying the cesspool.

• It may be that many properties are to-day functioning quite happily with cesspools, their occupants being almost unaware of the existence of the cesspools.

• Ashpits and cesspools are cleaned at regular intervals, giving rise to a filthy stench.

• The total cost of emptying a cesspool comprises two elements: the local authority or private contractor collection charge and the water authority treatment charge.

• I am rather anxious to know whether the term "cesspool"includes"septic tank".

• There are about 900,000 properties in this country occupied by 2½ million people, served by cesspools and septic tanks.