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Gratic City Sewers

"This city contains some of the most complex and functional sewer systems in The Gratic Empire, and such a system makes the city possible. The aqueducts and cisterns that travel from the rivers of Gratica help supply water to a city that would otherwise have to use failing wells and barrelled water to survive... [The tunnels of the sewer system] are filthy and slimy and disgusting and one should never go there unless absolutely necessary." ~ The City of Cities

Purpose / Function

There may be no indoor plumbing in Gratic City unlike on other worlds, but the sheer size of the city and the number of fountains in it mean that a system for supplying water is necessary. Water from the Jonitan Aqueduct and water travelling from the Ither River are sent down to tunnels deep below the city, where they are sent up via hydraulic systems and into fountains and wells around the city. At the same time, waste from across the city is collected at public bathrooms and sent down into another set of tunnels, where it is sent outside of the city and collected for manure.

Alterations

The system has been altered every time a new fountain, well, or public bathroom has been built in the last ninety years.

Architecture

The system is made of perfectly-fitting stone tunnels some fifty feet below the city streets. Each tunnel is about twenty feet wide and has thin raised areas on either side of the tunnel so that workers do not need to wade into the clean water or the muck, depending on which portion of the system they are in. There are three main entrances that are people sized and not blocked by grates: two are located in the markets of Ither and Southwark Districts and lead into the waste collection portion of the sewer, while the third is located near the Jonitan aqueduct and leads into the fresh water system. All three are guarded, and one needs a very good reason to be allowed in.

Type

Sewer, network

Parent Location

Gratic City

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