The Guardian explains:
A fatberg weighing the same as 11 double decker buses and stretching the length of two football pitches is blocking a section of London’s ageing sewage network.
The congealed mass of fat, wet wipes and nappies is one of the biggest ever found and would have risked raw sewage flooding on to the streets in Whitechapel, east London, had it not been discovered during a routine inspection earlier this month.
Now workmen armed with shovels and high-powered jets are working seven days a week to break it up. The grim task is expected to take three weeks.
Thames Water’s head of waste networks, Matt Rimmer, said: “This fatberg is up there with the biggest we’ve ever seen. It’s a total monster and taking a lot of manpower and machinery to remove as it’s set hard.
“It’s basically like trying to break up concrete. It’s frustrating as these situations are totally avoidable and caused by fat, oil and grease being washed down sinks and wipes flushed down the loo.
The fatberg is estimated to weigh 130 tonnes and stretches for 250 metres making it 10 times larger than the one found in a sewer in Kingston, London, in 2013.”
Let’s avoid something similar in our district! don’t dispose of oil, grease , nappies and wet wipes down the sink or toilet.
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When I read the headline I thought it was about Nick Claggy’s farewell speech…..😂😂😂😂