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DRY WELL [5 records]

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Alphabetical list of terms

Record 1 2012-03-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Sewers and Drainage
DEF

A pit lined with stones or bricks without mortar, and into which surface water is drained to soak away into the ground.

OBS

rummel: Scottish usage.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Égouts et drainage
DEF

Aménagement visant à éliminer les eaux usées en les laissant s'écouler dans le sol.

CONT

Il faut rassembler l'eau par un jeu de pentes convergentes pour l'envoyer par un regard absorbant vers un réseau d'évacuation ou tout au moins dans un puisard.

OBS

Regard servant de drainage. La partie supérieure du regard n'est plus étanche et par la préservation de trous garnis de pierres drainantes non scellées et dont une couche est disposée autour du regard, nous assurons la pénétration de l'eau à drainer à l'intérieur du regard.

OBS

puisard : terme uniformisé par le Groupe de travail de terminologie du génie.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Alcantarillas y drenaje
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Record 2 2011-09-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Sewers and Drainage
DEF

Covered pit with open-jointed lining in its bottom portions into which raw sewage is discharged, the liquid portion of the sewage being disposed of by seeping or leaching into the surrounding porous soil, and the solids or sludge being retained in the pit to undergo partial decomposition before occasional or intermittent removal.

CONT

... a cesspool is shaped like a tank, with perforations permitting the effluent to seep out into the soil, while the sewage and household solids remain to undergo bacterial degradation.

OBS

Cesspools may be either watertight or leaching.

OBS

The use of cesspools for disposal of sewage and their installation are acceptable in some localities, only if no health hazard will result from such installation or use and if approval is obtained before work is begun from the health department having jurisdiction.

OBS

cesspool; cesspit: We haven't been able to clearly distinguish those two terms, considered as synonyms by some authors but as different concepts by others. The main distinction noted is that "cesspool" is described as a "pit or receptacle having porous walls ..." and "a perforated tank", whereas "cesspit" refers to "an underground pit with no set form" ...

OBS

cesspool; leaching cesspool; dry well: terms officially approved by the Lexicon Project Committee (New Brunswick).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Égouts et drainage
DEF

Puits destiné à la réception des eaux usées en vue de leur épuration par percolation dans le sol.

OBS

Ces puits ne doivent être autorisés qu'après une étude démontrant l'impossibilité d'une contamination des nappes souterraines.

OBS

puits perdu : terme uniformisé par le Comité du projet de lexiques (Nouveau-Brunswick).

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Alcantarillas y drenaje
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Record 3 2011-07-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Oil Production
  • Oil and Natural Gas Extraction
DEF

Any well that does not produce oil or gas in commercial quantities.

OBS

This term is somewhat loosely used in oil work. A dry hole may flow water or gas or may even yield some oil but not in commercial quantities.

OBS

If no hydrocarbon-bearing formations are found above the basement, the well is assumed to be dry.

OBS

duster: The industry term for a dry well.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Production pétrolière
  • Extraction du pétrole et du gaz naturel
DEF

Puits qui ne produit ni pétrole ni gaz en quantité commercialement exploitable.

OBS

Paradoxalement, un puits «sec» est souvent envahi par les eaux souterraines.

OBS

Par opposition à «puits productif».

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Producción petrolera
  • Extracción de petróleo y gas natural
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Record 4 2005-08-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Equipment and Tools (Water Supply)
  • Water Collection (Water supply)
DEF

A dry compartment in a pumping station, near or below pumping level, where the pumps are located.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Équipement et outillage (Alimentation en eau)
  • Captage des eaux
DEF

Chambre souterraine entièrement cuvelée de manière à être imperméable aux infiltrations pouvant venir par le sol, et être en tous temps accessible. Un puits sec est utilisé pour faire fonctionner en charge une pompe alimentée par une citerne ou un réservoir enterré, la tubulure d'aspiration de la pompe étant alors raccordée à un élément de tuyau traversant la maçonnerie du cuvelage.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Equipo y herramientas (Abastecimiento de agua)
  • Captación de agua
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Record 5 1992-02-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Agricultural Engineering
  • Hydrology and Hydrography
DEF

A well which contains little or no water.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Génie agricole
  • Hydrologie et hydrographie

Spanish

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