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15 Ton "Fatberg" (Ball Of Fatty Food Deposits & Tissue) Removed From London's Sewers
Britain’s biggest ever ‘fatberg’ has been removed from a London sewer.
The bus-sized lump of wrongly-flushed festering food fat mixed with wet wipes formed in drains under London Road in Kingston, Surrey.
Had it not been removed it could have led to sewage flooding many homes, streets and businesses in the leafy London suburb.
Gordon Hailwood, waste contracts supervisor for Thames Water said: "While we've removed greater volumes of fat from under central London in the past, we've never seen a single, congealed lump of lard this big clogging our sewers before.
“Given we’ve got the biggest sewers and this is the biggest fatberg we’ve encountered, we reckon it has to be the biggest such berg in British history.
http://www.thameswater.co.uk/media/press-releases/17205.htm
