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No, there are not giant slugs swimming around London’s sewers, despite a viral TikTok video. An unnerving clip showing what appeared to be a slimy creature in London's underground sewers went ...
British engineers have finally cleared a massive 40-ton block of waste known as a “fatberg” from a South London sewer after spending three weeks chiseling down the clog, officials 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," Gordon Hailwood ...
The new super sewer system is just a couple of bolts away from being ready to carry millions of tonnes of Londoners’ waste. Thankfully, the London sewers and whatever is inside them are usually ...
Here’s what to know about this engineering feat beneath London. Like other cities, London has a sewer system that combines both rainwater runoff and sewage from homes and businesses. The system ...
Workers once had to clear a 150ft solidified slug of hardened fat with pick axes from sewers underneath the Leicester Square ... in the cycle so we have to treat everything." Two weeks ago London's ...
A fatberg weighing 40 tons — or more than 80,000 pounds — has been extricated from the sewers of London. A team of engineers from the Thames Water utility... Primary Menu Sections ...
London's infamous super sewer is finally complete. Officially known as the Thames Tideway Tunnel, the giant poo chute has been in the building works for the last eight years costing around £5 ...
For infrastructure geeks, London’s brand-spanking-new ‘super sewer’ has been the gift that keeps on giving. Not only is the 25km, £4.5 billion Thames Tideway tunnel (as it’s official ...
The Thames Tideway super sewer stretches 25 kilometres (15 miles) along the River Thames in London - Copyright AFP Daniel LEAL The Thames Tideway super sewer ...