These grim pictures show a fatberg removed from under a town said to be the same size as two Blue Whales. The whopping 200 tonnes of unflushable waste was cleared from 50 miles of sewer pipes underneath Southend-on-Sea, Essex.
The shocking fatberg is roughly equivalent in mass to two blue whales - the largest mammals in the world. It was cleared from the sewers in the town after a four-month operation.
And Anglian Water, which began the clean-up operation in December, and completed it this week, said some pipes were found to be up to 85 per cent full of unflushable materials.
The waste, once removed, was "roughly the equivalent of two blue whales", the company said. The water company says that as well as plenty of the 'usual culprits' such
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