How Do Sewer Systems Work?
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- Опубликовано: 27 июн 2024
- Sewer systems wonders of modern infrastructure. Back in the olden days, cities had open sewers where waste flowed through open canals on city streets. Today, we're much more civilized: we transport our waste underground in large pipes.
Sewer systems are essential to modern plumbing. Every time you flush a toilet, use a sink, or take a shower, you create liquid waste of varying chemical makeups that has to be transported and treated. You could just flush it into a septic tank, but these tanks require maintenance and come with a host of other issues when integrated en masse for modern cities. We have to manage our waste because it stinks, it contains deadly bacteria, and it has dangerous chemicals that could affect the environment.
You probably know that wastewater gets treated at a wastewater treatment plant, but let's take a look at how it gets there: sewer systems.
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This is what I love about RUclips. Im in my basement randomly looking at the sewer pipe thinking I'm on the side of a hill, and I believe the sewage treatment plant is on the other side of this hill. And even if it's not, not every sewage treatment plant could possibly be on the lowest portion of buildable land.
They couldn't possibly dig all of our sewage through the middle of this mountain. How would it Go uphill to get over?
Not even sure why I was thinking about that, I am no engineer, just an average mechanic. But whatever, I guess our minds are always going LOL but anyways this was exactly the video I was looking for, thank you very much
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Well.... i might be crazy but sewer looks like a hoax to me.... in order to make sewer to works on slope gravity you will need in some areas to dig deep deep down and there is no excavators that can dig that deep... now using pumps as this video suggests i never seen sewer pipes in my life.
Yea u are crazy, humans can dig deep deep deep deep deep down its 2024 not 1924 @ivanmoreno7355
Don’t flush wipes!!!!! They cause the majority of the problems that sewer maintenance workers have to deal with; plugged sewers & ragged pumps.
Flushable wipes are fine.
@@cwuzii No. They say that but they are wrong. Those get clogged too.
@@captainjackpugh6050 how can they put it on the packaging if it’s not true? Isn’t false advertising illegal?
@@cwuzii All I know is I remember an interview with a guy whose job was to unclog sewers, and he said that “flushable wipes” are bullshit and cause clogs in sewers all the time.
@@cwuzii I remember a video about the fat bergs in London sewers
Learned something new in Covid-19X era.
wow,you saved my life. needed to know this stuff in short time and found your video
Best explanation I've listened to yet.
One guy I listened to just talked about stuff that had nothing to do with his subject.
That’s what I try to do with this channel ✌🏻
Thanks for delivering such an exciting video. I hope to see more great videos like this in the future and keep the good work going on.
"When you don't have to deal with your neighbor's Shhiii- waste"
Literally.
Thanks for clarifying that the travelling poop emoji represents poop.
Live the video! Clear, concise and to the point! Thank you for sharing
Very easy to watch, very clear
Good to hear!
My wife and I were having a very productive conversation about what happens to our dookie after we flush the commode. Well what do you know, there are several videos about sewage and 💩💩💩 and where the little fellas end up at. Very informative video.
You deserve so many more subs dude. Liked, shared and subscribed. very high quality and detailed content
Thank you! One day we'll get more.. aiming for that 100k ;)
Yes😊
I never flush the wipes. They don't dissolve fast enough and cause the system to back up. It's best to just throw them away. Thanks for this video.
So much needed to know this
Good presentation, animation and information.
Any Civil engineers here ..thumps up folks he is one of us..
it was very helpful. thank you!
This is a nice primer for how sanitary sewer works, only part that grinds my gears as a stormwater nerd.... you showed storm drainage pipes & inlets a few times but the topic is highly pointed to sanitary sewer that is most the time completely separate systems.
Lol yeah, I unfortunately had limited copyright free video to work with. I guess people don’t find sewer systems as fascinating as we do? 😂
Thank you for awareness 👍👌
i was watching you expecting a 10 million subs or something but you will get there just keep the really good work .
Thanks! We literally just hit 10k 20 minutes ago. Hopefully we keep on growing!🤞🏻
@@ConcerningReality Great content, seriously. Though I can't help but cringe a little when I hear "whudder" instead of "water"! Haha
@@ConcerningReality That isn't much of a concerning reality! (That was a bad joke, wasn't it)
@@ConcerningReality Just to remind you, yes your channel is growing! All the best!
Love these videos! The animation is great! Hope to see more like this soon!
Thanks! New vids every Monday✌🏻🙂
GOOD EXPLANATION/ THANK YOU
I contributed to this video. Thank you very much !
This is amazing!!!
Thanks for sharing
Thank you!
Useful video
I was a city electrician and we had 6 lift stations. Always made sure to show the new guy's the brown trout races or scupper trout if you prefer.
Nice useful Vedic thanks
Wow. I was ignorant about much of this. Thank you.
Mr. Mojo risin'
@@chrisitl You know it! :)
PSA: There is no such thing as flushable wipes
Yes, they cause a TON of problems.
Tampons and ginormous turds can flush, but not wipes??
@@rmg2419 tampons are not supposed to go in the toilet either, fecal matter breaks down eventually
@@rmg2419 not supposed to flush tampons and turds disintegrate.
0:16 that sudden music change tho 😂😂😂
Awesome video.
Thanks!
really miraculous!
Wonderful information, grabbing from india!
I helped with this video
As always... Nice presentation.... 👍
Nope! Brand new video. We have another video on how wastewater treatment plants work.
Thanks gorav!🙂
video quality deserves a lot more subs mate.
i liked the line of turd beasts haha
Thanks! Hopefully they’ll come soon 😉
Awesome vid. My question is, how did this all get installed in ancient cities like those in Europe where the infrastructure hasn’t changed much in a very long time? (Venice, for example)
The sewer systems are near rivers, they linked them with bored out the center wood or concrete ( ancient rome) n it flowed out (usually) from the river out to sea
Keep going with the content my dude, it's a slow grind but really helpful, I'll be resuming informative vids myself. (Gaming for me)
Wow just wow
I truly and sincerely respect the people who have to put up with this Sh#T! 🙏
Nice video :) I don't know how much of your viewers live outside of America, but it'd be easier for me to have metric units next to the imperial ones.
Ah! We try to do that on every video but I guess it got left out on this one 😕 next time!😉
@@ConcerningReality I see ^^ Since this is one of the first videos I've watched on this channel I missed out on that. :) Thanks for your reply
@@rockit2017 The industry in North America still mainly works with the imperial system. 25mm for every inch will give you the nominal size in metric units.
Nice work! I think Sewer pump stations are often located away from people because they tend to smell....but they are often located near houses in any case...I’ve not heard of one exploding!
Thanks! Yeah the smell can be dangerous and that's why they're usually not close... the explosions do happen though and I included them for some dramatic flare :)
There's one in the alley right behind my house. Hate it.
Good vid, but would have been nice to touch on vacuum sewage systems.
Bhai logo ko hagne ke siwaye aur bhi kaam hote hai.......BTW nice video bro😂😂
what a great video! I work for a civil engineering firm doing drawings. I worked on drawings for a lift station not having a clue what a "Lift station" is haha.
Fantastic! I’m a civil engineer, I worked as a drafter on the same stuff for about a year but went the marketing route. I now work for a CAD company (likely the software you use for civil drafting) but do RUclips on the side 🙂 oh and thank you by the way✌🏻
@@ConcerningReality yup, im a drafter too. I have previously worked doing electrical substation drawings and I finally got into Civil with my current job. I got to say I like civil engineering a whole lot more!
Good 😊
Mario and Luigi have quite the job.
Humans are f’n amazing
I want to see the outlet. How it connect to water body. Is it designed to submerge or outfall.
This is just a great concept. Unfortunately in my country we don't have a sewage due to poor planning
what country
Mexico
If sludge is used for fertilzer for the farming of food products, how do they remove the toxic chemicals used in products such as laundry detergent, drain cleaners/uncloggers and so on?
0:38 What body part is that?!
Too many people thinks that poo just disappear magically in the toilet pipes
TOO MANY
nice KSP music
I have a graden with couple of holes on the group , one of them is bigger and deeper
My dogs tennis ball went inside and I cannot see it
Is this dangerous??
The hell am I doing here
But I’m glad I am here (:
India needs to see this.
the Indians? you guys in the US pump the purified water back into rivers and lakes... like wtf why? just look at european Wastewater Treatment Plants!
Your cooking oils/grease don’t go in the drains or sinks either. Unless you want problems later.
What does the treatment plant do
Sewer are sooo important to
Pps
If theres no sewer it stinks
The end
Thank you witchy man
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Pps 🗿
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Me turning up to the KSP music:
9.8m/s^2 is not gravity but the acceleration caused by the force of gravity
Lord.. Lord of Host, see us thru better days... Europe1
We are professional manufacturers of Hdpe spiral drainage pipe extruder machines
Ya
And for countryside does the septic tank do just fine.
So that hot steam I put my hands on in the winter is really hot shit..?
would you believe I'm here because I'm preparing for my next dungeons and dragons session
Is that the KSP VAB music I hear!
I think it is!!!
It is! It’s a song called Brittle Rille
so like.. what did we do before we knew how to treat this waste?
It ran through the streets and people died 😬 water 4.0 is a great technical book on the topic if you’re really interested
@@ConcerningReality thank you for the recommendation.
In the uk we have an overflow system that in the event of heavy rain will see untreated human waste go directly into the sea.
AESCULAPTORmark3 ah yes makes it easier to fish just pick em’ up of the surface
@@Slavicplayer251
Hahaha. It really does make you wonder what is absorbed into the fish we eat from the sea.
👌👌👍👍🔥🔥🔥 nice
Thanks!
am I the only one who thinks the little cartoon pile of poop is sooooooo cute😋?
I'm here to write, pray for me 😭
In our small town on balkans sewer goes to one colecting station and then into a river. Tipical environment pollution.
Yep, sounds about right!
I am watching this while pooping
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It makes me laugh the poop emoji🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
What about fatbergs?
Music after 3:51 ??????
Did u ask the Kerbals to use their theme song????
There’s a link in the description, this is actually royalty free 🙂
The background music came from ksp right?
It must be with how often people say that! It’s actually a cc free on you can find on RUclips
I just dropped a huge turd, super thick and dense so I was wondering how it would travel to the treatment plant. - WW
0:20 we still do it in our country 🤣😅 so i opened this video to see if its safe to use the sewage water for my farms crops ???
Oh no!
😊
We have to pressurize the poop
It is essential.
Gravity is so amazing
Its actually NOT amazing because it does NOT exist ... They got you good huh..??
@@ACommenterOnRUclips shut your useless mouth
@@ACommenterOnRUclips what do you mean it doesn't exist? What do you think is keeping us to the ground?
@@nikia5974 what keeps us on the ground ?? The weight of your body .. MASS ..
Do you FEEL a force pulling you down to the ground ??
2:40 damn its 50 cent!
But i dont get.,,when and how these pipes which transform the shit were made?how long are they? If each house connects with these pipes then each pipe would consists of thousands of kilometers!!can you explain this to me please?
typically your house sewer pipe will connect to a larger pipe on your street that will pickup the shit from your neighborhood and that pipe will carry to a larger pipe until eventually it reaches the WWTP. these pipes are installed prior to the construction of the roadway & houses that it services.
This narrator is wrong. Let me explain; I work in sewer maintenance And I have never once serviced a sewer at a house over 4in. And it's always 6in or 8in in the street until you go MUCH MUCH farther down the line until it reaches 3 to 5ft or sometimes larger. Thanks
The sizing varies a lot based on area and flow. I tried to give general numbers for the untrained viewer🙂
@@ConcerningReality Good video, but I've worked as a waterworks salesman in multiple municipalities and residential sewer service lines are 6" on the big side, 4-5" is standard.
Municipal engineer here and agree with this guy. The video is wrong
you NEED to PRESSURISE the POOP
Thank you for geting me fired :D
Open canal system of old times was much cheaper and far better
Cant they use flammable gas as fuel to generate electricity?
They do often at the wastewater treatment plants! 🙂
Never heard in india...
Thanks gravity
Hmm