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Professional blockage busters battle monster fatberg in England

Mark Frauenfelder
Aug 15, 2024
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image: Southern Water

A backed-up sewer resulted in a shitty situation in the UK town of Bishopric, Horsham leading utility company Southern Water to call in their crack team of professional blockage busters. What they found was a fatberg of monstrous proportions—a 100-pound abomination of cooking oil, grease diapers, sanitary napkins, and other non-biodegradable detritus th…

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