Leftytwogunz
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With huge storms coming, no doubt it'll be washed away to who knows where
I also just noticed the poop emoji at the end of your post. Storm drain, and sewer are two totally different systems.
Rain water goes in to one system of pipes and concrete boxes and waste water from housing goes into another system of lined, sealed, deep, manholes and thick plastic pipe.
Storm drains are the grates you see in parking lots, and the drains you see along the edges of streets. They collect rain water and run through big concrete or plastic, corrugated
pipes into retention ponds and can be saved or reused for grass irrigation etc.
These storm drains are not the same thing that your toilets go into.
Sewer pipe (the ones with poop) include the manhole covers you often see in the center of the street. They are deep and gravity fed into small hard plastic pipe. Those run
to treatment facilities. To encounter the human waste system, you would have to go into a manhole and climb down a ladder, usually below the roads.
In unrelated news, water pipes are a 3rd completely different system which is pressurized where the clean water comes into your faucets and showers etc.
It usually follows the roads, but is much shallower than sewer.
Sewer pipe is usually laid first on job sites, as it is the deepest, and the road is paved, they have TV cameras run through them to check for dips and are certified before construction continues, in my experience.
Storm drain is laid after and is to the edges of the roads big concrete boxes are open to rain water, to drain roads and parking lots.
Water pipe is laid last, pressure tested, certified by city inspectors and is as small as 2 or 4" pipe going up to your house.
