Britain Today

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My amazement of their inability to understand what the London Mayor's type of multiculturism brings,
will never cease to increase!

The disgusting fatberg weighing same as 8 double-decker buses that was blocking
a West London sewer

'A blockage estimated to weigh a horrifying 100 tonnes has been cleared from a West London sewer.
It took a team of Thames Water specialists - wearing gas monitors for their own safety - more than
a month to remove the fatberg that was more than 10 metres below street level in Feltham.


Er... Yuk!

The solid mass consisted mainly of wet wipes held together by fat, oil and grease, and was equivalent
weight of eight double-decker buses. The team had to access the sewer through a large manhole chamber
to then blast, chisel and suck the blockage out from along 125 metres of pipes. The waste was then craned
into skips and taken to landfill, Thames Water said.

Alexander Dudfield, engagement lead for network protection at Thames Water, said: "The clearance of this
fatberg was hugely complex for our team of engineers and shows some of the challenges we face. 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."

It comes weeks after the Port of London Authority, local environment group Thames21 and Thames Water
collaborated to remove a bank of wet wipes that had settled and congealed into sludge on a curve of the
River Thames by Hammersmith Bridge in West London. 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.

So far this year, Thames Water said it has cleared 28,899 rag blockages, which were primarily made up
of wet wipes, 14,810 fat, oil and grease blockages and 686 third party blockages, made up of concrete
and other sewer-blocking materials...'

MyLondon Article:

Gawd.  It ... it ... it's ALIVE!

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Note for BIAD.

On some Mediterranean islands, the hotels specifically instruct guests NOT to flush used toilet paper.  Instead it is simply placed in the wastebasket.  To avoid "fatbergs" (more like turd-bergs IMO), I suppose.

One can imagine the smell if those wastebaskets are not in air conditioned rooms.  That implies there must be entire dumps filled with soiled toilet paper.  Bet the flies etc. congregate there like its Africa v2.0.