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It seemed to be coming from between me and the catch basin.

"They end up using those training schools as a catch basin for all the child and youth problems in the state," he said.

However, you can dig a catch basin to stop it.

Under the program, about 50,000 catch basins would be treated.

Some go into the catch basins, which is pretty sad.

"It was a catch basin for everything that floated down the river," he said.

Eventually the state provided some of the catch basins and pipe.

For example, next to some malls there are huge, dry catch basins.

Known for its river system, the region is the catch basin of Mindanao.

They found their way easily down a shallow cascade and around a catch basin below.

"That's what I'm really concerned about, those catch basins," he said.

These shops have become a catch basin of merchandise from afar.

Use a catch basin beneath the box to avoid dripping on neighbors below.

"All of this stuff goes into the catch basins, and it becomes solid, especially in the winter," he said.

Starting early next month, it will be applied to more than 135,000 catch basins citywide.

He found the piece of jewelry in the catch basin of the toilet.

A trough or catch basin is constructed below the weir.

He closed the circular catch basin cover, not too much more than half a cubit across.

Water already was flowing out of the catch basin through the lowest of these.

I squirmed out of the drain, into the catch basin, onto a ledge.

"So it acts like a catch basin, collecting every fume."

To date, the state has installed extra catch basins to handle some of the runoff.

I rose into a stoop again and followed the descending drain away from the catch basin.

"I'm going to knock the sheared bolts right on through into the catch basin."

"For us, the big issue is catch basins, those grates at the corner.

You can also discover the old catch pits in the area.

A catch pit was therefore installed near the bottom.

Wreckage seen in the catch pit today dates from a further runaway in the 1950s.

Sprinkle lemon zest over pasta; squeeze in juice, catching pits in your hands.

Reports at the time indicated that the sewage passed through catch pits by gravity, allowing solids to settle, which were removed weekly.

High Peak Junction lies at the bottom of the steep Sheep Pasture incline (some 1320 yards in length at a gradient varying between 1:8 and 1:9), and following a runaway in 1888 a catch pit was constructed, the two lines passing either side of it.