A team of water engineers spent a month in the bombing and cooling of a 100 tons from under the streets of West London.
The blockage, which consists mainly of wet wipes, was glued together with fats, oil and homogeneous fat, equivalent to the mass of eight double buses, holding 10 meters below the street level.
Themes Water has circulated details of the mammoth cleaning function to celebrate a month’s national campaign to increase awareness of how the materials and materials that were promoted on rivers, seas and the broader environment.
This comes at a time when the Times Witr Critics requests the water industry organizer, Offat, up to 15 years of indulgence from the rules of pollution of the waterways in England, on the pretext that it would be impossible for the company to conduct promotions throughout London and southeastern England more quickly due to the necessary work scope after years of neglect. I was exposed to the Times water with huge debts that caused more than two decades by owners who have been criticized to pay stock profits without investing enough in their leaked tubes and idle treatment.
Fatbergs are formed when the oil, blade and fat collects from banks with non -decomposing elements such as wet wipes, capillaries and cotton buds. If left for growth, floods and liquid pollution can cause widespread sewage reserves.
After this incident, the investigators discovered the latest Fateberg, a 10 -meter -meter, under the streets of Fleetham. It was primarily consisting of moist wipes, compressed in a fibrous mass and gelatin inflammation that prevents flow through the main sewage tube below the area.
Engineers specialized in protection equipment entered the sewers in a two -person safety cage of a 3 -meter maintenance hole room. By working in the depth of underground, they used the shots, the shovel and high pressure hoses to remove the accumulation of the concrete from 125 meters of the main sewage, before it is absorbed on the surface and diluted the trucks to get rid of the site of the toxic waste.
“The removal of this sedition was very complicated by our team of engineers,” said Alexander Dodfield, bullets in the Times Water.
“But while some obstacles in our largest sewers can weigh up to 25 elements, we should not forget that most blockages occur in local tubes – often narrower than a mobile phone and are usually caused by some living families.
“When these tubes are blocked, we cannot simply stop wastewater. They support and should go out somewhere, whether these roads, rivers, or even people’s homes.
“The consequences can be destroyed.”
Themes Water says it spends 18 million pounds to cleanse 3.8 billion of her network wipes every year. To date this year, the company said it has cleared 28,899 of a rag block, which was composed in the first place of wet wipes; 14,810 fat, oil, and lips blockage; And 686 third -party coordinators, consisting of concrete materials and other sewage prohibitions.
Feltham Fatberg Fiasco has followed a recent advertisement from the government that it would make legislation to prohibit wipes containing plastic. But some problems remain more stubborn: A recent survey study I found that 48 % of the British still pour fat, oils and smell at the bottom of the drainage.