If you need a synonym for stench, there’s always hogo, from French haut-gout, literally “high flavor.” This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “Hogo” Here’s a word that was a new one on me, HOGO, H-O-G-O. Do you know this one, Grant? No...
Thanks to the fatberg-a 15-ton blob of fat and grease found in a London sewer-the -berg suffix lives on. This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “Fatberg” You know I should have mentioned this word on the air at the time it happened, but...
pipe-bursting n.— «However, the sanitary districts also used a process called “pipe-bursting,” Carmouche said. In that process, a line was threaded into the sewer. Once inside, he said, it expanded to become a new sewer pipe.» —“Gary makes new push...
colonia n.— «The counties of South Texas are among the nation’s poorest, and their jumbled subdivisions, known as colonias, home to 400,000 Hispanic-Americans, can certainly look the part. Since the 1950s, developers have carved small lots from...
turtle n.— «A sewer is a slippery workplace. Water can move at the speed of oncoming traffic, even when it is not laden with tree branches, two-by-fours and the waste products known in the business as “turtles.”» —“Working in the Sewers Is a Dirty...