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Disgusting 'fatberg' longer than two soccer fields clogs Londonsewer
On 9/12/2017 6:10 PM, The Todal wrote:
On 12/09/2017 20:59, BurfordTJustice wrote: Some 820 feet long, the fatberg is blocking a Victorian stretch of sewer more than twice the length of two soccer fields. Work on the disgusting mass, which is below the streets of London's historic Whitechapel area, started this week. An eight-strong team of workers are using high-powered jet hoses to break up the fatberg before sucking it out The Thames Water representative gave a useful interview to the LBC presenter today. The only things that should be put down a toilet are the Three Pees. Pee, pooh and (toilet) paper.* Not kitchen wipes, not even wet-wipe toilet tissues and obviously not cotton buds or tampons. Why do do many people put unsuitable stuff down the toilet? Possibly because they aren't sure which refuse bin it ought to go in? Most people have no idea how a sewer works. You put something in the toilet, pull the handle, it is gone. They do not know and do not care what else happens. Flush, gone, done. Nothing else to know or care about. Maybe they should add a stupidity tax to the water/sewer bill. |
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Disgusting 'fatberg' longer than two soccer fields clogs Londonsewer
On 9/12/2017 4:02 PM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
On 9/12/2017 6:10 PM, The Todal wrote: On 12/09/2017 20:59, BurfordTJustice wrote: Some 820 feet long, the fatberg is blocking a Victorian stretch of sewer more than twice the length of two soccer fields. Work on the disgusting mass, which is below the streets of London's historic Whitechapel area, started this week. An eight-strong team of workers are using high-powered jet hoses to break up the fatberg before sucking it out The Thames Water representative gave a useful interview to the LBC presenter today. The only things that should be put down a toilet are the Three Pees. Pee, pooh and (toilet) paper.* Not kitchen wipes, not even wet-wipe toilet tissues and obviously not cotton buds or tampons. Why do do many people put unsuitable stuff down the toilet? Possibly because they aren't sure which refuse bin it ought to go in? Most people have no idea how a sewer works. You put something in the toilet, pull the handle, it is gone. They do not know and do not care what else happens. Flush, gone, done. Nothing else to know or care about. Maybe they should add a stupidity tax to the water/sewer bill. When we were kids, we had a guy next door who joined a religion that told them to keep a year's worth of food on hand. They had some god awful stuff, along with wheat to be milled at home, etc. This guy had a container of some sort of soy powder or something that he wanted to toss out. So instead of putting it in the trash, he dumps all the powder into the sink and washed it down. He ended up with a blockage like concrete. My brother and I couldn't snake it out, so we ended up just flushing a lot of water and having it come back at us little by little. We finally got it cleared, but what a mess (which we left for him to clean up). A couple of kids, one a pre-teen, had to bail out this "adult". What a dope. |
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