"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."
"The utility company continues to call on members of the public to avoid flushing wet wipes and waste other than toilet paper. Wet wipes are often the cause of blockages across Thames Water's sewer network, with the company saying it clears 75,000 blockages a year, often caused by wipes, and removes some 3.8 million annually in operations that cost 18 million."
"It took a specialist team more than a month to remove the blockage 10 metres below street level in Feltham. The fatberg was mainly made up of wet wipes held together by fat, oil and grease, and weighed the same as eight double-decker buses, the company said. It was blasted, chiselled and sucked out of the sewage system through 125 metres of pipes. The waste was then craned into skips and taken to landfill, Thames Water said."
A specialist team spent more than a month removing a fatberg 10 metres below street level in Feltham. The fatberg consisted mainly of wet wipes bound by fat, oil and grease and weighed as much as eight double-decker buses. The blockage was blasted, chiselled and sucked through 125 metres of pipes, then craned into skips and taken to landfill. Most blockages occur in local pipes often narrower than a mobile phone and caused by a few households, leading to sewage backups into roads, rivers or homes. Thames Water clears tens of thousands of blockages annually, removes millions of wipes, and urges people not to flush wet wipes.
Read at www.standard.co.uk
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