A fatberg is a rock-hard mass of cooking oil, wet wipes, and sanitary products. In 2024 alone, Thames Water removed a 100-meter-long beast from a sewer running parallel to the Thames near Hammersmith. The thing weighed as much as a humpback whale.
But the tunnel cannot stop a car wash from dumping degreaser into a roadside grate. It cannot dissolve a fatberg. commercial drainage goring on thames
As one landlord at The Miller of Mansfield told us: "We spend more on sump pumps than on beer pumps." The traditional answer to commercial drainage issues is the Thames Tideway Tunnel (the "Super Sewer"), a £4.5 billion mega-project set to finish in 2025. It will capture 95% of the sewage currently spilling into the tidal Thames. A fatberg is a rock-hard mass of cooking
Last spring, the Environment Agency fined a major developer £200,000 after a "milky white discharge" was spotted flowing from a drainage pipe near Wandsworth Park. The culprit? A wheel wash station draining directly into a surface water sewer. But the tunnel cannot stop a car wash
In the picturesque village of Goring (home to George Michael’s former riverside mansion), the commercial drainage issue is unique: .