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condotte di mista

English translation: Combined sewer pipes

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Italian term or phrase:condotte di mista
English translation:Combined sewer pipes
Entered by: Federica Banzola

15:08 Mar 10, 2006
Italian to English translations [PRO]
Tech/Engineering - Real Estate / fognature municipali
Italian term or phrase: condotte di mista
Relativamente agli interventi sulla rete fognaria pubblica principale e secondaria è quella di prevedere:
- il completamento della separazione della rete fognaria tramite la posa di nuove condotte di nera e trasformazione delle condotte di mista esistenti, in condotte di bianca;
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Federica Banzola
Italy
Local time: 12:46
Combined sewer pipes
Explanation:
See the difference between Black water / Grey water / fresh water on the website below. They are separating the black water from the more eco-friendly grey water.
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Isabel Booth
Local time: 12:46
Grading comment
grazie mille
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Summary of answers provided
3 +4Combined sewer pipes
Isabel Booth
4One-pipe (drainage) system
Russell Jones


  

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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +4
Combined sewer pipes


Explanation:
See the difference between Black water / Grey water / fresh water on the website below. They are separating the black water from the more eco-friendly grey water.



    Reference: http://www.greywater.com/
Isabel Booth
Local time: 12:46
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 4
Grading comment
grazie mille

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4 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
One-pipe (drainage) system


Explanation:
"The so-called two-pipe system, where gray and black water was segregated ... remained the U.K. standard approach well into the 20th century, only giving way in the 1930s to the one-pipe system ..."
http://www.pmengineer.com/CDA/Archives/8202edda89298010VgnVC...

Russell Jones
United Kingdom
Local time: 11:46
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 48
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