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Sep 13 2017 06:15am
OFC something this awful would happen in White Chapel :mellow:


Source https://www.livescience.com/60391-fatberg-clogs-uk-sewer.html



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In a sewer region located about 11 feet (4 meters) under the Whitechapel neighborhood in London, workers are just beginning to dismantle an inanimate but uniquely revolting inhabitant a vast and rock-solid plug of oily waste charmingly known as a "fatberg."
Composed of stinking garbage and grease and weighing in at 143 tons (130,000 kilograms), the Whitechapel fatberg sprawls for 820 feet (250 m) about the length of two English football fields. This means the blob is more than twice as long as the nefarious iceberg responsible for sinking the Titanic, which was estimated to measure a mere 200 to 400 feet (61 to 122 m) long.
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Sep 13 2017 07:08am
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Sep 13 2017 08:39pm
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So thats what the BM stands for...
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Sep 21 2017 05:02pm
Thats delicious.
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Oct 20 2017 04:16pm
Plumber friend of mine blames low-flow water "saving" toilets for this. More than a century ago, our general sewer systems were laid out, working strictly off gravity, to remove waste from our homes. Then, along came environmentalists demanding we "conserve" water. The problem now being that city/county engineers now have to come along every few months and pump hundreds of thousands of gallons of water through the systems to clear the shit out that never used to accumulate when the toilets were using 1.6 gallons per flush. They're not actually "saving" any water, and are instead using more.
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Oct 23 2017 05:58pm
Quote (Santara @ Oct 20 2017 05:16pm)
Plumber friend of mine blames low-flow water "saving" toilets for this. More than a century ago, our general sewer systems were laid out, working strictly off gravity, to remove waste from our homes. Then, along came environmentalists demanding we "conserve" water. The problem now being that city/county engineers now have to come along every few months and pump hundreds of thousands of gallons of water through the systems to clear the shit out that never used to accumulate when the toilets were using 1.6 gallons per flush. They're not actually "saving" any water, and are instead using more.


kellyanne conway agrees with you
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Oct 26 2017 03:46pm
hard water
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Nov 6 2017 11:32pm
Looks like decades of someones dumping of something LOL

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Nov 7 2017 03:17am
This is why you don't toss cooking oil in the sink...
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