FATBERGS

FATBERGS

Thursday, September 14, 2017

  I originally wrote of fatberg issues one morning in 2015. Reading Omaha World-Herald during this morning pasta and pills regimen I discovered that a present London sewer blocking fatberg is 250 yards long weighing 130 tons. “like concrete”, a crew of 8 hopes to clear it in 3 weeks.

  1/20/15 Icebergs are commonly known of and viewed. But whoever other than Mike Rowe, his fans, sanitation engineers and the people that work at the never-ending dirty job removing them, has ever seen a fatberg?

  A fatberg is something many people contribute to the building of. It’s made up of grease, diapers, wet wipes, et al, combined with garbage pulverized down your kitchen drain. A fatberg may be as small as the one about to seal off the pipe under your basement concrete floor or in big city sewers weigh many tons and be the size of a 747 fuselage.

  The small are removed rather easily by rota-rooter reamer operated by a neatly clad operator and flushed on to join their big brothers.

  Big city fatbergs are laboriously excised by underground people dressed like Ebola technicians wearing sparkproof boots and suits. Then there’s the glob chemically generating heat, methane, and eating up the oxygen in the air. London town, Great Britain, deals with about 55,000 of various magnitude every year. (The result of generations dining on greasy fish & chips?) Using hi-pressure water jets, shovels, chainsaw-like machines, a fulltime team of 38 people remove the fatbergs.

  Either size fatberg can result in foul back flooding. One of the worst being a guy’s man cave found as a septic tank just before all his buddies show up for the big game.

  Why am I telling you this today, for stinky education? Yes.

  When I read Popular Science article about the problem with fatbergs, I thought more people should know about and take measures to not contribute to this problem. And then my thoughts turned to the important blockage preventing lesson in 1Corinthians 12:5-27. 

EBB4

PS. If friend Artie offers to treat me to a fatberg tour I’m not going.