BUILDING SEWERS, also known as PROPERTY SERVICE CONNECTIONS (PSCs), are what connect a building's internal wastewater collection system to the municipal sewer system. PSCs can connect to a lateral, main or trunk sewer line.

LATERAL & BRANCH SEWERS are the upper ends of the municipal sewer system. Laterals dead-end at their upstream end with branch sewers collecting the wastewater from several lateral sewer lines.

MAIN SEWERS are collectors for numerous lateral and branch sewers from an area of several hundred acres or a specific neighborhood or housing development They convey the wastewater to larger trunk sewer lines, to lift stations.or to a neighborhood package wastewater treatment plant.

TRUNK SEWERS serve as the main arteries of the wastewater collection system. They collect and convey the wastewater from numerous main sewer lines either to a wastewater treatment plant or to a
interceptor sewer.

INTERCEPTOR SEWERS receive the wastewater numerous from trunk sewers and convey it to a wastewater treatment plant. These are the largest diameter lines in the sewer system and the furthest
downstream in the system.

LIFT OR PUMP STATIONS are utilized in gravity sewer systems to lift (pump) wastewater to a higher elevation when the route followed by a gravity sewer would require the sewer to be laid at an insufficient slope or at an impractical depth. Lift stations vary in size and type depending upon the quantity of wastewater to be handled and the height it must be lifted.

Building Sewer or Property Service Connection:

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8" PVC Branch Sewer Line as seen by a Sewer Telespection Camera	30" Brick Main Sewer Line as seen by a Sewer Telespection Camera	56" Brick Trunk Sewer Line
1940s Dedication Ceremony for new 27' 6" Monolithic Concrete Interceptor Sewer Line	Inspection of 1850s stone sewer – notice the flat stone slab top cap	Inspecting a damaged 48" 1870s brick sewer in the 1940s
Excavating a blocked property service connection	Excavated vitrified clay property service connection that was blocked by roots	Getting ready to root cut a property service connection prior to installing two-way cleanout
Deteriorated VCP Property Service Connection that was blocked by roots	Roots growing out of property service connection into branch sewer line	Root intrusion into property service connection as seen by a sewer telespection camera

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