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God is, as it were, the sewer into which all contradictions flow.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

I don't think we ever had before the Council discussion of the sewer cost of service study, you know, at a public meeting, ... We talked about it informally, you know, but not in front of the council.

Dick Murphy

Wal-Mart provides a chilling example of the damage that low-wage, nonunion corporations can wreak, and their business model is going to set the standards for our children unless we do something now. Wal-Mart is the sewer pipe through which good jobs are being flushed.

Andrew Stern

We took a look at dentists' offices and industrial customers and sampled at strategic locations. It's hard to know exactly where it comes from. We went business to business in certain areas, asked them if they use mercury compounds and told them they can't dispose of it down the sewer.

Glenn Dishong

We have wanted a sewer; we have needed a sewer.

Tom Webb

We are praying we don't have an earthquake, ... This is money we've committed to sewer, street and other projects to meet the future needs of our city.

Tom Hardy

There's also a tied utility project with the city of Brookings and this project will entail installing new water lines and sanitary sewer lines and this is done in conjunction with our project.

John Rittershaus

As a child of five, I ran away from home, but much to my embarrassment I was returned the next day before the FBI could get on the case. A disgusted sewer worker had complained that I did the worst chicken imitation he had ever seen.

Gary Burghoff

We are by law required to provide certain public facilities. Water and sewer facilities require large tracts of land, and if we are precluded from obtaining large tracts of land, how are we going to be able to do that?

Steve Atkins

We have had patience with the sewer, but this really is ridiculous. When it snows, we're not the first to get our road cleared. When the lights go off, we're not the first to get them back on. But when you see houses getting built with God knows how many bathrooms in them, and you only live five miles away, that's a little disheartening.

Carol Lee

None of this money was placed in water and sewer surplus, and it therefore had no impact on the fund balance.

Craig Ross

He'd talk about the referendum (scheduled for Oct. 15), reconstruction projects, sewer projects, you name it, ... We wound up in the Iraqi version of Starbucks, drinking chai with locals. It was easily the most interesting raid I've ever been on.

Steve Warren

I got the first call about a week ago, right after contractors finished doing some sewer work. I did contact the Army Corps and asked them to take care of that.

John Bach

This is like saying I could not vote on sewer or water projects.

Allen Settle

Building a community of this size and scale is best served far and away by city water and sewer services. People moving into a second home want those services; they want a maintenance free home and don't want to have to pump out a septic tank.

Mike Toohey

We've determined that this is really the new municipal infrastructure. The same kind of debate was being done 150 years ago about whether cities should be building roads or sewer systems.

Leonard Scott

The park also has a water and sewer system. It makes a lot of common sense to have a community center next to it.

Lee Bird

I ran across him in some of the key things that RAMAC was working on: consolidation of government, EMS (emergency medical services), joint fire stations, sewer and water.

Roger Caron

There is good in requiring people to lay sewer and prepare for (annexation). But somehow you have to balance that with people's ability to pay the costs.

Dick Ainsworth

This does not mean that we're requesting the town to build a sewer.

Jon Depreter

That's less time than the state requires to review the installation of a sewer pipe.

Bill Wolfe

It's right next to a sewer treatment plant!

Kat Gordon

We've received a waiver from DEP, but now we're waiting for the sewer extension permit.

John Dolan

It's the planning documents that could have been improved to give them better tools to respond to the spill. The sewer-system discussion has been going on for a couple of years.

Kathi Moore

The challenge will be identifying areas. The most logical are those needing services (sewer and water).

Nancy Carroll

The plaintiffs have leaked confidential information in violation of a court order, and we cannot violate the court order ourselves by discussing what they have leaked, ... Plaintiffs have filed things containing sealed material, and I am just not going to get into the sewer with them.

Larry Pozner

The sewer hook-ups are all I?m looking forward to.

Anthony Ross

I think we really need to focus on the water and sewer bills, instead of trying to talk about everything at once.

Mary Hamilton

I have been fighting long and hard for an adequate sewer system in my district.

James Sanders

They were under a consent degree from the MDEQ to do something about this problem, that's to build a municipal sewer.

G. Jean Verbos

We've got city water, city sewer, police and fire-rescue services right there across the street from them. It makes perfect sense to take a look at that.

Shawn Harrison

Because we have farms and houses and sewer plants and businesses out there, we cannot let nature run its course. Solving the Salt River problem and putting in a sewer plant go hand in hand. It's a challenge.

Michael Powers

I think passage in April is likely. These increases are to offset prices for labor, supplies, materials and other items necessary to operate the public water, sewer and refuse systems.

Lee Yoakum

If it smelled like sewer, that's good.

Joseph Bernier

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.

Mel Brooks

These CDBG funds will help our upstate New York communities improve water and sewer services, help them make important housing programs available, and ultimately improve the quality of life for our residents.

John Mchugh

We're not objecting to the sewer lines.

Richard Swanson

The sewage collection system expanded over the years and the sewer lines are going to need to be maintained. Having the rights of way officially transferred to the authority will help to avoid further complications and will allow the lines to be repaired or replaced when needs arise. Avoiding complications keeps the entire sewage collection system running smoothly.

Orville Lerch

We are contributing just over $4 million directly toward sewer with our tap and access fees during construction of the project. In addition to this, we have agreed to front $400,000 of this to the city (as) construction begins.

Ken Green

The next day, I dropped the knife in the sewer on the corner of Grand Street and Fifth Avenue.

Jason Jones

(There's) a lot of traffic on there now, ... We're not on sewer anyway.

John Tabor

We must stop there. We have $500,000 in the sewer account and $367,000 was already taken out. This is a travesty to the public that we are raiding the sewer fund. We have raised rates from $1.75 to $4 per 1,000 gallons.

Dorothy Kelly

We just doubled the (sewer) plant size in 2000 and we need to double it again. (That is) going to provide some financial challenges here in the next 2-3 years. The magnitude of that project is more than what we anticipated.

John Dowd

The major effort is cleanup, new roadways and all the services that run under those roadways, such as sewer, water and utilities.

Jason Keadjian

It's important enough that we should take another look at it, ... We've hired (engineering firm) HMG to take a look at the rates. There's still going to be a sewer rate increase, but it may be spread out through more years.

Gary Graham

We probably won't be able to actually build a new house for a while, because of the (sewer) moratorium. What our first project may well be instead is a rehab project, taking an existing home and improving it so that it is inhabitable.

George Lewis

Every enterprise fund ought to be self-sustained. The electric fund is in good condition, but the water and sewer is not.

Kevin O'donnell

By conserving power and avoiding power outages we are all protecting Lake Tahoe by reducing the risk of sewer spills.

Steve Rogers

I think it's the most exciting thing that has happened to us since we started talking about sewer.

Dot Chenevert

But we're trying to figure out if we run the sewer line how to best finance a reclaimed water route because in the long term, environmentally it would be a great thing to do.

George Crombie

Life is like a sewer... what you get out of it depends on what you put into it.

Tom Lehrer

We're secure, we have phones, we have pure water.... We have sewer, we have garbage pickup, we have more and more stores ready to come on line.

Jackie Clarkson

Central Connection? It's by the sewer line. Nobody talked to us, so we didn't know what they were doing.

Lysa Broussard

The county wants to keep it as rural as possible. There's no way the rural tier could support all that growth. There's not enough infrastructure and there's not even public water or sewer in most of the area.

Jackie Brown

In order to be able to operate and maintain the sewer system so that it provides the service it needs to provide, we kind of have to do this, ... I hate that it has to come now with the gas price so high, but it's become a financial drain on the General Fund.

Paul Barnett

Their sewer system is overloaded and there are sewage overflows.

Freda Tarbell

I think it would be a great improvement for the community, ... The service is already there -- water, sewer, cable TV, natural gas . . . I had three calls about the property just today. That's how hot it is.

Robert Kirk

I rarely do anything on the show by myself. I don't want it to be about me. Squatting in the sewer in San Francisco, it's really hot, we're up to our knees in a river of (excrement). Rats and cockroaches are all over. I would never, ever walk into that environment, except for the fact that the guy who does it every day is squatting next to me.

Mike Rowe

We're still doing damage assessments. There's a security risk and a health risk because of a lack of a sewer system.

Carman Apple

There was one guy, his false teeth fell into the sewer. And he just picked them up, shook them off and put them back in his mouth.

Jim Mcdarrah

The water and sewer work are all done. The paver broke on the east side of Middlebelt, but they should be moving to the west side, ... The project is coming along good.

Jack Barnes

Every day I reassessed my life. The job was hard. One day I dug an entire sewer main by hand in six-and-a-half hours. That's the day I decided I probably needed to get back in college.

Akim Millington

He said the improvements will include 33 blocks of total infrastructure reconstruction, including sewer lines, water lines, lighting and concrete, which will “completely change the face of Havre.

Mick Johnson

We haven't really done a calculation on the fines or penalties, and again our focus is to really get the collection system improved, and to protect the environment out in Hawaii and to prevent future sewer spills.

Kathi Moore

That is going to prevent future issues with the sewer lines in that area.

Sam Scire

Did you finally hear what caused that, other than 35 gallons of gas ran down the sewer?

Tom Meeks

I'm renting two generators. I'm going to dig a well. I've got a temporary sewer holding facility. My building has to be ready in two months, and I don't have gas, sewer or water. Other than that, I'm doing fine.

Brad Joseph

My biggest concern is that this sets in motion a plan that gives Jacksonville 50 percent (of the sewer capacity), and they haven't even asked for it.

Joe Mclaughlin

We want to make sure there are enough services to provide for them, such as schools, sewer, transportation facilities.

Norm Luppino

Rigging a loudspeaker and a microphone at both ends of a sewer pipe.

Leonard Chess

This 'master plan' was flawed -- it could not forecast which areas would be annexed and received municipal sewer and water.

Carl Roehl

The road to Easy Street goes through the sewer.

John Madden

Rich knows every aspect of the sewer district's operation. He will continue the district's achievements in protecting water quality in the Hudson River basin and providing cost effective and efficient services to the eight communities it serves.

Frank Commisso

If they're sewer manholes they belong to the city of Santa Cruz and they can raise them.

Chris Schneiter

The township would really like to see them put in their own cluster sewer system, like the Kohl's development did across the street.

Bill Giles

The water and sewer infrastructure is well under way, with pads built for the homes.

John Barrymore

The ruling doesn't say that the school district is entitled to more fees, nor does it confirm that the county has any rights to sewer capacity from the city sewer plant.

Steve Herum

Hollywood is a sewer with service from the Ritz Carlton.

Wilson Mizner

What's happening today is a result of a long-term history of poor design or mismanagement. A lot of sewer lines have been down there since the '50s and '60s and we have an increased amount of people and therefore more usage.

Melody Heidel

Once we finish the sewer project, there are still a lot of needs.

Michael Pleus

I don't think the average citizen wants to see government have to pay a grossly inflated amount for a piece of property for a sewer line.

Sandy Jacquot

We'd love to preserve additional property, but we've got to start where we can afford. When our necessary water and sewer comes in to the whole island, we will see a increase in growth. We hope to preserve a few pieces to enjoy.

Lisa Brohl

We have to have it [the sewer system] built before they hook up. We have to have that capacity on line and ready to go. We have to stay ahead of the curve.

Dan Gallagher

For all the bad things people say about the river -- and most people see it as a giant sewer -- the goldfish show the river can sustain life. It makes the whole idea more personal.

Ed Reyes