Water and Wastewater Terms Beginning B

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bucket

(1) A special device designed to be pulled along a wastewater collection pipe for the removal of debris from the pipe. The bucket has 1 end open with the opposite end having a set of jaws. When pulled from the jaw end, the jaws are automatically opened. When pulled from the other end, the jaws close. In operation, the bucket is pulled into the debris from the jaw end and to a point where some of the debris has been forced into the bucket. The bucket is then pulled out of the pipe from the other end, causing the jaws to close and retain the debris. Once removed from the manhole, the bucket is emptied and the process repeated. (2) A conventional pail or bucket used in bucketing out and for lowering and raising tools and materials from manholes and excavations.