100-tonne ‘fatberg’ blockage cleared by Thames Water after several weeks
A huge 100 -ton “Fatberg” from the Western London sewage has been successfully cleaned.
The assistant company has spent for more than a month to eliminate the gigantic blockage, which has been more than 10 meters below the street level in Feltham.
This solid mass was primarily made up of fat, fat and grease and wet wipes solidified. The company said that its enormous weight is equivalent to eight -pairs of buses.
To deal with clogging, the team reached the underground network from a large manhole equipped with gas monitors for safety.
Then they exploded, cut and sucked the stubborn material from a 125 -meter pipe.
The extracted waste was then taken to jumps and moved to the storage area.
Alexander Dudfield, a engagement leader for network protection at Thames Water, said: “This Fatberg’s cleaning was very complicated for our engineer team and showing some of the difficulties we face.
“However, while some blockages in our largest sewers can be as heavy as 25 elephants, we should not forget that there are most blockages in local pipes – usually narrow more than a mobile phone and usually a few households.
“When these pipes are blocked, we cannot close the sewage. Bed backups and roads, rivers or even people’s homes, should go somewhere. The results may be destructive.”
Weeks after the Port of London Port of London, the local environment group Thames21 and Thames Water cooperated by the Hammersmith Bridge in Western London to remove a wet handkerchief bank that settled on a curve of the Thames River and became mud.
The public service company continues to call public members to wash wet wipes and prevent waste other than toilet paper.
Wet wipes are usually the reason for the clogs throughout the sewage network of Thames Water, the company says that it cleans 75,000 blockages per year, and usually lifted about 3.8 million per year in operations caused by handkerchiefs and cost 18 million £.
This year, Thames Water, mainly wet wipes, 14.810 oil, oil and grease blockage and 686 third -party blockage of 28,899 cloth blockage, he said.
