Giant 'fatberg' dredged from London sewers
A 15-tonne ball of congealed fat, dubbed Britain's biggest ever "fatberg", has been dredged up from a London sewer, utility company Thames Water said Tuesday.
(AFP) A 15-tonne ball of congealed fat, dubbed Britain's biggest ever "fatberg", has been dredged up from a London sewer, utility company Thames Water said Tuesday.It took 10 days to remove the double-decker bus-sized lump of festering food fat mixed with sanitary wipes which formed in drains under a major road in Kingston, southwest London.
Local residents in the well-to-do suburb complained that their toilets would not flush.
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