Let ’s play a secret plan holler Good Idea Bad Idea . Good idea : flushing only biodegradable stuff down the potty . big idea : pouring a metrical short ton of concrete down a drain and into a Victorian - era sewer system .
London is currently consider with the consequence of someone ’s very bad idea near the Islington district . Thames Water , the metropolis ’s public pee utility , report thatit is removing a mass of solidified concretethat ’s over 300 yards long and count as much as a gentle whale . Thames Water also say that the “ concreteberg ” is the biggest upstanding mass of its kind the caller has ever seen , which is allege something for London , a metropolis famous for its enormous fatbergs .
“ Normally closure are because of rich , vegetable oil and wet wipes building up in the sewer but unfortunately in this cause it ’s tilt - hard concrete , ” Alex Saunders , the operations manager for Thames Water , said in a statement . “ It ’s in there and set to the tight-laced brickwork , so we require to chip away at it to get it remove . ”
Image: (Thames Water)
The situation does bring to mind London ’s on - going struggle with various types of ‘ berg in its aging sewer system of rules . As Saunders point out , many of these are massive clod of fatty tissue and wet wipes that accumulate when people scour things down the toilet that should not be flushed . A couple of years ago , Thames Waterfound an tremendous fatbergin a four - foot - tall sewerage that stretch 820 feet long and weighed an reckon 130 metric heaps . That one was ten time the size of it ofthe famous bus - sized fatbergfound in London ’s Kingston borough back in 2013 . All of the fatbergs are very expensive to remove and unspeakably skanky to look at .
Concretebergs are arguably worse , at least in term of removal . Saunders say that this “ is not the first time ” some half-wit has pour crocked concrete into the sewers , although it ’s definitely the worst case . Thames Water has launch an probe into the position which , again , lead off with a very bad idea .
[ The Guardian ]
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