The Disgusting Fatberg Weighing Same as 8 Double-Decker Buses that Was Blocking a West London Sewer

Shocking 'fatberg' weighing 100 tonnes is cleared from west London sewer

The solid mass consisted mainly of wet wipes and weighed the equivalent of eight double-decker buses

'Fatberg' weighing 100 tonnes removed from London sewer

The removal of the "fatberg" from a sewer in Feltham was "hugely complex", Thames Water says.

The disgusting fatberg weighing same as 8 double-decker buses that was blocking a West London sewer

The huge mass had to be blasted and chiselled at to remove the wet wipes held together by fat, oil and grease

100-tonne ‘fatberg’ blockage cleared from sewer in west London

The solid mass beneath Feltham consisted mainly of wet wipes held together by fat, oil and grease, Thames Water said. A blockage estimated to be around 100 tonnes has been cleared from a west London sewer, Thames Water has revealed. The utility firm said a specialist team took more than a month to remove the so-called “fatberg” that was more than 10 metres below street level in Feltham. The solid mass consisted mainly of wet wipes held together …

100-tonne ‘fatberg’ blockage removed from London sewer

Thames Water described the clearance of the fatberg as ‘hugely complex’

Grease, Grime and Wet Wipes: 125-metre “fatberg” hauled from London’s sewers

A revolting 125-metre-long fatberg — a greasy monster made of congealed fat, oil, grease and thousands of soggy wet wipes — has been dragged out of a sewer beneath west London. Flooded sewer caused by the fatberg blockage (c) Thames Water Thames Water engineers spent more than a month hacking away at the 100-tonne blockage, a stinking subterranean lump as large as eight double-decker buses that was lurking in the sewers below the streets of Felt…