How do sewers in skyscrapers work?

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When someone on the top floor flushes, does their poop plummet hundreds of feet down a pipe? And how do they make sure that a blockage on a bottom floor doesn’t make the building flood with poop water?

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As the more and more fixtures flow into the main stack, building code will require the stack diameter to increase to compensate for the extra gpm (gallons per minute) this reduces the chance of blockage.

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