Mythopoeika
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I lost weight recently. I wondered where all the fat went...
ramonmercado said:Eric Pickles fallen further down a sewer?
Workers discovered a 3ft blockage of fat clogging up sewers under the streets of Cardiff.
The fat deposits, known as 'fatbergs', were filmed by Welsh Water as part of an awareness video.
You know it's big when they use a Blue Whale to measure it by.
Museum bids to acquire huge 'fatberg' clogging London sewer
London's monster fatberg may be destined for a museum.
The Museum of London says it is trying to acquire a chunk of the 130 metric ton (143 U.S. ton) mass of oil, fat, diapers and baby wipes currently clogging one of the city's Victorian sewers.
Utility company Thames Water is trying to dislodge the smelly blob, which is 250 meters (820 feet) long, by breaking it up with high-powered hoses. They say the process could take weeks.
Museum director Sharon Ament said Wednesday that adding the fatberg to its collection "would raise questions about how we live today and also inspire our visitors to consider solutions to the problems of growing metropolises."
The museum hopes to obtain a cross-section of the fatberg. It hasn't decided how it would be displayed.
... I see we have an earlier thread on Sewer Fathere.
We have a cess-pit and as a result we'd get a very direct reminder of what not to put down the drain, if we put anything down the drain in the following list: anything bactericidal, kitchen roll, wet wipes, sanitary towels, condoms, fat and oil. Maybe it's time to roll out a reminder to folk...A giant fatberg has been discovered in Sidmouth.
The Guardian article has a photograph of the lovely thing, as well as a graphic to illustrate its size as a multiple of buses.
These sewer-tumours seem to be symptomless until they have grown gigantic. You would expect the flow through these tubes would be monitored. It all makes me wonder else might be lurking down there! :domo:
Edit 03.27 pm. I see we have an earlier thread on Sewer Fathere.
Interestingly, it comes to an end with a 2005 tale about the eruption of raw sewage from the toilet of a Devon home. South West Water "said the sewer blockage was caused by people's "irresponsible" disposal of fat into the sewers and it was not liable for the damage."
The old boy next door (now deceased) used to clog up the sewer with something. Water company had to come round twice and clean it out.I'd like to "remind" one of our neighbours who persistently clogs our sewers with their sanitary towels.
I've a feeling it's the beauty parlour at the end of the row.
“Normally blockages are caused by fat, oil and wet wipes building up in the sewer but unfortunately in this case it’s rock-hard concrete. It’s in there and set to the Victorian brickwork, so we need to chip away at it to get it removed.
The concreteberg is believed to have been caused by a construction company pouring surplus cement down a drain. A range of cutting tools, including jackhammer pneumatic drills and high-pressure jets, will be needed to break it up.
Thames Water said it had launched an investigation to identify the culprits and planned to sue them to recover its costs.
I can believe it. When our soil pipe clogged, I had to remove a 4 foot section entirely and found it's i/d reduced to about 3" and a thick layer of cementacious material covered the inside, resulting from a shower installation, where the installer had simply flushed all the left over material down the drain. He's long since vanished, which is as well or I'd have sued the bastard.Concreteberg found in London sewer
100 metres long, weighing 105 tonnes [big as a blue whale, how many olympic swimming pools it would fill unknown], could take two months to remove at a cost of at least several hundred thousand pounds.
I can believe it. When our soil pipe clogged, I had to remove a 4 foot section entirely and found it's i/d reduced to about 3" and a thick layer of cementacious material covered the inside, resulting from a shower installation, where the installer had simply flushed all the left over material down the drain. He's long since vanished, which is as well or I'd have sued the bastard.
Begins with "T" and rhymes with 'bechy'?Some fool not a million miles from this very spot
Begins with "T" and rhymes with 'bechy'?
How do they dispose of that fat, I wonder? Normally, fat and oil could be recycled into a bio-diesel, but the fatberg is so polluted.An illustrious ancestor of Technician Second Class Arnold J. Rimmer reported his department successfully cleared a 10 ton fatberg from a London sewer.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-54735988
"Thames Water's head of waste networks Matt Rimmer said the fatberg had "set hard and had to be destroyed to get the sewer flowing well again". "