Fatberg

Apologies for another excretory post but I can appreciate the enormity and consequences of this.  Living on country plumbing with a septic system you’ve got to beware about what you put down the hole.    

In recent news a 250-metre long fatberg weighing 130 tons (the weight of a blue whale) has been found blocking a sewer.   The solid mass of congealed fat, wet wipes, nappies, oil and condoms formed in the Victorian-era tunnel in Whitechapel, London.    

Thames Water described it as one of the largest it had seen and said it would take three weeks to remove.   The company's head of waste networks Matt Rimmer said: "It's a total monster and taking a lot of manpower and machinery to remove as it's set hard."   

Details – including video – here.