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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
World
Maroosha Muzaffar

Foul ‘poo balls’ wash up on Australian beaches amid warnings over giant sewer fatberg

Dark, spherical blobs of foul-smelling debris have appeared along parts of Sydney’s coastline, which authorities suspected were fragments of a massive “fatberg” of waste trapped inside a nearby deepwater ocean sewer.

The latest discoveries following intense weekend rainfall were made at Malabar Beach, adjacent to a sewage treatment facility operated by Sydney Water, Australia's largest water utility, as well as along stretches of Botany Bay.

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