Water and Wastewater Terms Beginning W

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wastewater collection system

A network of pipes, manholes, cleanouts, traps, siphons, lift stations, and other structures used to collect all residential, commercial, and industrial wasterwater and wastewater-carried wastes of an area and transport them to a wastewater treatment plant. Also called collection system and sewerage system.