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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Did they find any plastic straws?
“Did they find any plastic straws?”
Funny you two should ask! They did find like some plastic balls or something. Something else was down there. Go look on the video.
That goes for those flushable toilet cleaning brushes.
Whoever it was, I sure hope they received a sizable financial compensation for it.
Time for us to support bidets.
They do need a redesign. I fell prey to flushable wipes and my septic system this year. 1 wipe at a time. My plumber then filled me in on the details. The flushable ones are barely biodegradable and need sunshine to kick the process of and keep it going. There is no sunshine in septic system or city plumbing.
Mother is the necessity of invention. Ban wipes until they make them safer to use and they’ll come up with some version that will be safer because banning them will such a mother ****er.
I don’t flush anything but TP.
On a septic system I won’t even flush TP.
That goes into the garbage.
My brother is married to someone who just throws them on the floor.
Some women are absolute pigs.
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