Chapter:

Quantity-of-Waste-Water

Explain sources of Sanitary sewage or dry wear flow.

The dry weather flow DWF or sanitary sewage basically includes the following sources.

  1. Domestic sewage i.e, the sewage or wastewater derived from residential buildings, individual houses, from commercial institutional and similar public buildings such as offices, schools cinemas, hotel etc.
  2. Industrial sewage i.e,  the sewage or wastewater obtained from manufacturing plants of industries.
  3. Ground water infiltrating into sewers through the pipe joints and other entry points.
  4. Illegal or unauthorized connection it includes entry or rain water and an unauthorized connection made by the people  in the sewer.
  5. Private sources includes the wastewater generated from private sources like tube tube well, well etc. 
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