"A revolting 125-metre-long fatberg - a greasy monster made of congealed fat, oil, grease and thousands of soggy wet wipes - has been dragged out of a sewer beneath west London. Thames Water engineers spent more than a month hacking away at the 100-tonne blockage, a stinking subterranean lump as large as eight double-decker buses that was lurking in the sewers below the streets of Feltham."
"But while some blockages in our biggest sewers can weigh as much as 25 elephants, we must not forget most blockages occur in local pipes - often narrower than a mobile phone and usually caused by a few households. When these pipes get blocked, we can't simply switch off the sewage. It backs up and must come out somewhere, whether that's roads, rivers or even people's homes. The consequences can be devastating."
A 125-metre-long fatberg composed of congealed fat, oil, grease and thousands of wet wipes was removed from a sewer beneath Feltham in west London. The mass weighed about 100 tonnes and resembled a stinking subterranean lump as large as eight double-decker buses. Engineers spent more than a month chiselling, blasting and vacuuming the blockage while working through a three-metre-wide manhole using gas monitors. The grease-soaked material was scraped into skips, craned out and sent to landfill. Thames Water warned that many blockages occur in small household pipes, supported a ban on plastic-containing wet wipes, and urged flushing only pee, poo and paper.
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