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Premature wear of pumping-station valve fittings and gaskets caused by equipment vibration was the culprit behind several of 14 spills during Keystone's first year of operations, Vern Meier , head of TransCanada's U.S. pipeline operations, said at a press conference Wednesday.
Cause of Keystone Spills Fixed Edward Welsch 2011
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Premature wear of pumping-station valve fittings and gaskets caused by equipment vibration was the culprit behind several of 14 spills during Keystone's first year of operations, Vern Meier , head of TransCanada's U.S. pipeline operations, said at a press conference Wednesday.
Cause of Keystone Spills Fixed Edward Welsch 2011
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If you knew the trouble we had in getting the city council to spend the money and cover the pumping-station with vines!
Main Street 2004
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But we have an old pumping-station that we are going to convert at considerable expense.
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The figures showing the cost for sand handling do not include any charge for the quantity of water used, that item having been carried on the pumping-station account.
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The drainage-system consists of underground sewers, which are discharged by a pumping-station into a natural depression to the eastward, called the Salt Lake.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various
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General Hall occupied Santólan and the pumping-station there and repelled the repeated attacks made on his column.
The Philippine Islands John Foreman
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A "sausage" balloon anchored to the ground, a pumping-station and four square-shaped water-troughs, and a dozen or so shanties built of sandbags and rusted iron, dotted the green-and-brown landscape.
Pushed and the Return Push George Herbert Fosdike Nichols
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If you knew the trouble we had in getting the city council to spend the money and cover the pumping-station with vines!
Main Street 1920
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If you knew the trouble we had in getting the city council to spend the money and cover the pumping-station with vines!
Main Street Sinclair Lewis 1918
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