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How Sewers Work

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View inside a sewer as rainwater leaks in.

To keep solids from building up, the flow inside a sewer needs to be high enough to keep solids suspended in the flow and clean out any that sink.

To travel underneath waterways, sewers often use an inverted siphon.

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