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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Damien Gayle Environment correspondent

Thames Water removes 100-tonne fatberg from west London sewer

Workers in sewer wearing special white clothing.
Engineers wearing protective gear used picks, shovels and high-pressure hoses to dislodge the blockage. Photograph: Thames Water/PA

A team of water engineers have spent a month blasting and chiselling a 100-tonne fatberg loose from under the streets of west London.

The blockage consisting mainly of wet wipes glued together by congealed fat, oil and grease, was the equivalent in mass of eight doubledecker buses, stuck 10 metres below street level.

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