Gully emptier

A gully emptier is a type of specialized tanker lorry with suction gear which can suck wastewater and mud and sludge out of hollows such as the hollows below drain grids in street gutters and carry it to a suitable disposal point. It needs to be able to suck out and pump through into its tank any road grit and miscellaneous solids that have got into the hollow.

Some have a means of squeezing the water of its load and letting that water run down the drain or they can recycle the water for high pressure cleaning of the drain pipes.

Difference from cesspool emptier

A vehicle which is purely a cesspool emptier has a long wide flexible hose without the big solid nozzle with controls on.

Gully emptiers always or often have a means to squeeze the contents of its tank and keep the solid matter and squeeze the liquid out and let the liquid run back down the drain. This would not be done with cesspool contents in a cesspool emptier.

Sometimes a gully emptier also has a flexible hose without solid nozzle like on a cesspool emptier.

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External links

* [http://www.statesworks.com/harrierattachments/Fleet%20Gully%20Epmt.jpgimage]
* [http://www.leics.gov.uk/index/highways/dlo/drain_maintenance.htm Leicestershire (UK) Highways Drain Maintenance] with images
* [http://www.vintagecommercialvehicle.freeserve.co.uk/dennis/003-07-2000.jpgimage] of old gully emptier