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City sewers are laid out much like the creeks in a watershed. Only there is far less rela!onship between the drainage area included in a sewershed and the topography overlying the sewers.
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The main sewers are surprisingly(?) large, and there are people who perform urban explora!on around the world in old city sewers. e.g. h"ps://www.hiddenhydrology.org/

Images from Vanishing Point. h"ps://vanishingpoint.ca (site not currently maintained)

However, it's quite a smelly (and dangerous!) ac!vity, as the oldest ci!es around the world o#en s!ll have bathroom waste sewage mixed in with the stormwater in sewers.

In the City of Toronto, we have areas in which the sewers are s!ll combined or only par!ally separated downtown (grey stripe or blue), but further out in newer neighborhoods we now build separate sewers for each type of
water (pink).

During rainstorm events, the combined sewers can overflow mixed wastewater out into natural water courses, pollu!ng the rivers and creeks with pathogens from the human fecal waste. We call this a CSO (combined sewer
overflow) event.

This next map shows all of the places where combined sewers can overflow in Toronto.

Image from h"p://www.toronto.ca/water/cleanwaterways/pdf/2008-07-10_presenta!on.pdf

Apart from flooding, reducing CSO events is one of the most important reasons to carefully manage stormwater on every
development!

If you've some spare !me before next week, maybe you're inspired to do the par!cipa!on exercise of watching 'Lost Rivers'. It's all about sewers and their rela!onship to natural water courses!

A couple of Addi!onal videos about CSOs

What is a combined sewer over2ow (CSO)


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