Skanky Vamp
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from usa today
LONDON — The British capital is waging an ongoing battle in its aging 19th-century sewers against the scourge of "fatbergs" — congealed masses of cooking oil, wipes, condoms, diapers and other gunk — that pollute and clog the underground system.
London sewer workers who coined the term for the stinking mass need to use shovels and high-pressure hoses to blast it apart.
The utility Thames Water announced Friday that it finally broke up a monster fatberg whose existence was made public in September. The 800-foot- long, 130-ton blob the size of 11 double-decker buses was blocking a 270-yard stretch of sewer under Whitechapel Road in London’s East End.
The mass, which took nine weeks to destroy, was the largest ever seen in this capital city. The biohazardous, pollution risk was being converted into more than 2,600 gallons of biodiesel.
Another fatberg — 6 tons and 55 yards long — under central London's Chinatown still needs to be broken up and removed from the sewer built in 1852. Thames Water is monitoring about 10 fatbergs that aren't causing any major problems — for now.
from usa today
LONDON — The British capital is waging an ongoing battle in its aging 19th-century sewers against the scourge of "fatbergs" — congealed masses of cooking oil, wipes, condoms, diapers and other gunk — that pollute and clog the underground system.
London sewer workers who coined the term for the stinking mass need to use shovels and high-pressure hoses to blast it apart.
The utility Thames Water announced Friday that it finally broke up a monster fatberg whose existence was made public in September. The 800-foot- long, 130-ton blob the size of 11 double-decker buses was blocking a 270-yard stretch of sewer under Whitechapel Road in London’s East End.
The mass, which took nine weeks to destroy, was the largest ever seen in this capital city. The biohazardous, pollution risk was being converted into more than 2,600 gallons of biodiesel.
Another fatberg — 6 tons and 55 yards long — under central London's Chinatown still needs to be broken up and removed from the sewer built in 1852. Thames Water is monitoring about 10 fatbergs that aren't causing any major problems — for now.
