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- noun Plural form of
downspout .
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Examples
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The city was forced into a costly program that included, among other things, disconnecting downspouts.
Robin Madel: World Water Week and Urban Water Infrastructure Robin Madel 2011
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The city was forced into a costly program that included, among other things, disconnecting downspouts.
Robin Madel: World Water Week and Urban Water Infrastructure Robin Madel 2011
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The city was forced into a costly program that included, among other things, disconnecting downspouts.
Robin Madel: World Water Week and Urban Water Infrastructure Robin Madel 2011
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This was made even worse in Portland because many downspouts from gutters in the city were plumbed directly into the sewer system, driving up sewer pipe flow rates during heavy rainfall.
Robin Madel: World Water Week and Urban Water Infrastructure Robin Madel 2011
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The city was forced into a costly program that included, among other things, disconnecting downspouts.
Robin Madel: World Water Week and Urban Water Infrastructure Robin Madel 2011
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This was made even worse in Portland because many downspouts from gutters in the city were plumbed directly into the sewer system, driving up sewer pipe flow rates during heavy rainfall.
Robin Madel: World Water Week and Urban Water Infrastructure Robin Madel 2011
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Modest increases in impervious surface due to construction of cottages can in most cases easily be offset by modest removal of impervious surfaces on affected lots, and/or disconnection of downspouts from pipes that discharge runoff to streets.
Report Card Gives Low Marks to City Council Members « PubliCola 2010
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Back in the 1990s I connected the downspouts that drain about 80 percent of my roof to a shallow swale I dug in a corner of my back yard and landscaped with native plants.
Report Card Gives Low Marks to City Council Members « PubliCola 2010
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This was made even worse in Portland because many downspouts from gutters in the city were plumbed directly into the sewer system, driving up sewer pipe flow rates during heavy rainfall.
Robin Madel: World Water Week and Urban Water Infrastructure Robin Madel 2011
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This was made even worse in Portland because many downspouts from gutters in the city were plumbed directly into the sewer system, driving up sewer pipe flow rates during heavy rainfall.
Robin Madel: World Water Week and Urban Water Infrastructure Robin Madel 2011
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