Depends on where you live. In central New Jersey a lot of storm water from the streets is a separate system that heads back into the rivers or whatever whatershed. Where as sewage from your home or business drain goes to sewage treatment processing.
Comment on Shower drains and storm drains are the same thing in theory but not practice
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 6 days agoDon’t they lead to the same system? If there was a leak in your roof over your shower, your shower drain will also be a storm drain
Album@lemmy.ca 6 days ago
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 6 days ago
I believe in Northern Ireland it’s the same system. I may be wrong, though. Our sewage system has a lot of issues, unfortunately.
MNByChoice@midwest.social 6 days ago
They used to, in many places, lead to a sewage treatment facility. That has been changing.
Unless you mean the ocean. Then yes, same place.
protist@mander.xyz 6 days ago
Storm drains usually lead straight to creeks, rivers, or other bodies of water, whereas your sewage goes to a water treatment facility first. Totally separate systems (in most places)