Posted on 10/18/2018 12:13:36 PM PDT by Morgana
“These will be outlawed here and wiped out of existence soon...crappy laws will prevail. “
Well you know people too stupid to put them in trash cans and not in the toilet.
I go in the women’s rest room and there is always a sign that reads “Ladies please do not flush your sanitary pads or tampons there is a trash can provided for you”. There are women that stupid as to try to flush a sanitary pad? Plus a tampon is going to do in the pipes what it does in your body...EXPAND. Can’t believe these women that stupid. Don’t have to be a plumber to know this.
That was my thought.
I always do it deport, I always manage to get a different news agency :P
Shitty job.
Your “flushable” wipes are the problem.
They are labeled “flushable”, but they raise Hell with sewage systems.
Whether they are flushed one at a time or a dozen at a time does not really matter. They will accumulate at certain locations in the collection system.
For instance, a very common configuration is to have small pipes feeding into a large manhole. The wipes will wind up accumulating in the manhole and build up over time until they stop up the works.
And don’t get me started on what these things do to sewage lift stations. If you have ever had to change a large sewage lift pump, you know that is one piece of equipment you want to last as long as possible. But a bunch of these wipes can accumulate and get into a macerating pump, and you have a burned out motor. Replacing a lift pump is a really nasty piece of work.
The problem is probably that most wipes aren’t flushable.
And people get used to flushing them and think all wipes are flushable.
The problem is probably that most wipes aren’t flushable.
And people get used to flushing them and think all wipes are flushable.
I saw an earlier article, and I thought the issue was with people flushing wipes that are NOT billed as “flushable”.
I think many people don’t understand that baby wipes, “bleach wipes”, and others are NOT supposed to be disposed of by flushing down the toilet.
Some wipes are meant to be flushed, from what I understand.
People from today may not have seen yesterdays posting. No
problem
it just gives others a chance to read both if the choose to.
talk about a dirty job
That said, sometimes there is good cause for government intervention. This may be one of them.
There are millions who use baby wipes instead of TP. Every city has an interest in ensuring they are “flushable”.
Talk about a crappy job...
Yea I know just did not want to get hounded on for not seraching.
That’s a good point. 1 certainly helps with the (modern, low-flow) toilet, but things can still gather further down the line.
If it is a non-paper wipe, it doesn’t matter if it is labeled as “flushable” or not. None of them are flushable.
They simply don’t break down the same was as paper. They are stronger and more durable, which is why people like them. However, this is the same reason sewage engineers and workers hate them.
They should all be clearly labeled as non-flushable. Dealing with conventional waste is enough of a problem, without people getting all innovative about what they flush down a toilet.
Find any plastic straws?
What else would they be? They all look like paper. Maybe thick wet paper. They tear like paper. The question is do they really dissolve?
BTTT
I have a family member who bought a home in a fairly upscale part of town. A few months in he had to have his main sewer line dug-up and replaced. He discovered that the prior residents of the home (Middle Eastern types) had been flushing diapers and sanitary napkins into the line for years.
Volunteered? Probably got paid a fortune.
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Insane and totally unneccessary.
There are remotely operated vessels that can do this job well.
Whoever ordered this operation should be fired.
They should also install comminutors at the plant intakes.
Are there no competent Santary Engineers in S. Carolina?
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