Definition of "sewering" []

• The act of constructing or replacing a sewer system for a new development or neighborhood. (noun)

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• "Fairfax County has offered to expend $125,000 for sewering this land through the county system."
• "Within a few years the work of sewering the city has been systematized and pushed forward vigorously."
• "There was no doubt, he said, that in the sewering of towns want of experience in the construction of works had in some cases led to deposits in the sewers, and evil consequences had ensued; but it might be accepted as certain that in every case where the sewerage had been devised on sound principles, and where the works had been carried on under intelligent supervision, a largely reduced death-rate had invariably followed."