sewers
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A ‘Concreteberg’ As Long As A Football Field Has Clogged London’s Sewers
Let’s play a game called Good Idea Bad Idea. Good idea: Flushing only biodegradable materials down the toilet. Bad idea: Pouring a metric tonne of concrete down a drain and into a Victorian-era sewer system.
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Drain Drones And Hydro-Saws: A Sewer Tour Of LA’s Underground Tech
“So, do you prefer full-immersion or ankle-deep?” Not quite the reply I’d expected from Kent Carlson, the sewer and stormwater field operations manager for the city of Los Angeles, when I requested a tour of the city’s new sewer technology.
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A 5-Minute Journey Down A Manhole In New York
“It’s dead quiet, and you feel like you’re the last man on earth. That’s incredibly rare in New York,” says urban explorer Steve Duncan. Filmmaker Jon Kasbe followed Duncan — who many of you might recognise from 2011’s Undercity — down a sewer for the short film, A Beautiful Waste, released in July.
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There’s Gross Alternative Fuel Just Hanging Out In The Sewers
Everybody knows about using oil as a fuel source, but London is putting a new spin on the concept. Soon, the city will be mining its own sewers to bring up glorious globs of old cooking grease and melting them down into fuel. Delicious.