Source – A team of divers in South Carolina went plunging to the dirtiest depths — up to 90 feet — in raw sewage to unclog pipes blocked by so-called “flushable” wipes, officials said.
The Charleston Water System announced their assault Monday on social media against non-flushable items that clogged pumps beginning on Thursday at the Plum Island Wastewater Treatment Center, including thousands of baby wipes, a baseball and a large piece of metal.
“Since then, we worked 24/7 to get them out,” the agency tweeted. “We started by using a series of bypass pumps to handle the normal daily flow.”
Here's some more pictures of "flushable wipes" from recent years pic.twitter.com/PkOeflPIRJ
— Charleston Water (@ChasWaterSystem) October 15, 2018
Three days later, the bypass pumps were back to normal levels, but not before a team of divers had to travel up to 90 feet down in total darkness while using their bare hands to “find and identify the obstruction,” according to the agency.
“As we expected, they came up with these large masses of wipes in their first two loads, with more to come,” Charleston Water tweeted. “They also found a baseball and a big piece of metal. Don’t flush stuff like this. Joking of course, but you should only flush #1, #2 and toilet paper.
All I get out of this is someone shit out a bat and a piece of metal.
Oh and a disgusting feeling in my throat that feels like I’m on the verge barfing my fucking throat up.
I have a major phobia cleaning out the drain in our shower. It’s so bad I had to have weird drains in everything that needs a drain so everything cleans itself. Especially in the showers. I wretch when I see hairy gelatinous globs of goosy, scummy viscose, shit. I always have. I could watch a surgery, hours of death videos on ogrish, and I’m golden, but if I see a shart of wet hair death I’m finished.
I don’t even like writing about it, to be honest. I have this weird, cringy fart look on my face right now.
The guy smiling with the rake is an idiot. I’m sorry. Only an idiot would smile fishing through 100 year old shit.
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