Posted on 10/18/2018 12:13:36 PM PDT by Morgana
Officials with the Charleston Water System in South Carolina were caught in a smelly situation last week. They had to send scuba divers roughly 80 to 90 feet down into “raw sewage” Thursday to clear heaping piles of wipes that clogged the system.
The Charleston Water System shared pictures of blackened masses on Twitter, warning residents wipes don't really disintegrate, though the packaging may claim they're “flushable."
“You know wipes clog pipes, right? If not, baby wipes clogged a series of large pumps at our Plum Island Wastewater Treatment Plant on Thursday afternoon,” the Charleston Water System wrote on Twitter, adding “we worked 24/7 to get them out.”
Divers swam through “wet/raw sewage" in "complete darkness," using their hands to find the source of the obstruction.
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For real though this looks serious. Maybe the companies of these products need to go back to the drawing board?
I think they call these build ups Clunkers.
If ever there were a case to be made for robots...
I think they’ve been outlawed in the UK for this very reason.
Baby wipes belong in the trash, not the pipes.
Very shitty job.
Telling people not to flush certain items is an effort in futility. People will do what they want with impunity.
It’s like the CFL bulbs and rechargable batteries which aren’t supposed to be thrown in normal trash but are all the time.
Man! Who were the heroes who volunteered for that duty? Not only revoltingly disgusting but a serious personal health risk.
Well, we have “flushable” and “non-flushable” wipes.
I use flushables for myself - 1 at a time because I know that that only goes so far.
Baby wipes are NOT flushable. When our son was a baby not long ago, we just gathered them up with the trash (in diapers).
Possible someone put a bunch from a baby session down a toilet, but I also wonder if someone dumped fresh stacks of them, the way it was described the other day.
They can have my wipes when they pry them from my cold dead fingers!
Looks like they may be outlawed here too. Darn baby wipes. Our moms never used no baby wipes, she used a wash cloth that she rinsed off in the toilet, wash in the washing machine and reused. Today’s parents are so spoiled and wasteful of money.
How do you breath with a vomit filled regulator?
We call them "Icebergs" up North.
This is a real, no kidding problem. Sewage systems are not designed to deal with these non-biodegradable wipes. They get into low spots and areas of slow flow, and just accumulate. It is a really nasty problem.
I am not, generally speaking, in favor of government intervention in the market, but some thing has to be done. People think these things are flushable just like toilet paper is flushable. They are not. They flush down the toilet well enough, but the system you are flushing them into is not designed to handle them.
And don't get me started about what they do to rural septic tanks...
What do you suppose they pay those guys?
These will be outlawed here and wiped out of existence soon...crappy laws will prevail. The hole we’ll enter is skidding us into the abyss.
“What do you suppose they pay those guys?”
Not enough.
LOL understated!
“You want us to do WHAT?
How DARE you offer a job like that. I’ve never been so insulted. We won’t do it for any less that $500 each. IN CASH!!”
>>>>>What do you suppose they pay those guys?<<<<<
Their wages are pretty crappy, I hear. Their jobs stink yet I heard they got so pissed they ran out quickly and out of control.
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3697591/posts
wipes cause Charleston Water System backup ^
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