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• n  an oil reservoir in an internal combustion engine
• n  a well or other hole in which water has collected
• n  a covered cistern; waste water and sewage flow into it

• The 30-mile strip of houses, farms and schools has been transformed into a sump filled with fetid water.
• Even more impressive is the way this feature-film novice director sells his vision of Johannesburg as a dusty sump hole, a place of sapping heat and blinding glare.
• In election years, Congressmen operate by a kind of law of political physics; they seldom rise above the level of the political sump pumps back home.

• cesspool
• cesspit
• sink

News & Articles

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• Failed pump sends sewage into Mississippi River
  A sump pump at the main wastewater pumping station in Princeton, Iowa failed, sending raw sewage flowing into the Mississippi River.
  June 10, 2013 - WQAD Moline
• Ongoing Wastewater Discharge In Princeton
  From the Iowa DNR: PRINCETON – A sump pump failed in the main wastewater pumping station in Princeton about 7:30 Monday morning. Subsequent flooding damaged the electrical system causing the city to
  June 10, 2013 - KWQC-TV 6 Davenport
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  June 9, 2013 - The Sandusky Register

Quotes

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• Jari-Matti Latvala in Auto Racing Daily
  On the first stage we drove down a long fast straight with some jumps and dips,said Latvala. "In one compression, just before a crest, there was a rock which had become exposed in the middle of the road and it struck the sump guard beneath...
• Marcus Gronholm in Sportinglife.com
  Everything was going okay until a left-hand corner about three kilometres into the stage,Gronholm said. "We came into it with normal speed, but the ruts were much deeper than they had been yesterday and the car started to slide on the sump...
• Mikko Hirvonen in Motorsport.com
  It has been rough and rutted but I like these stages and I've not taken stupid risks,Hirvonen explained. "There were many loose stones this morning and the car's sump guard took a few big hits so I knew I had to be careful."