Ever since London ’s most improbable famous person , the Whitechapel fatberg , thread headlines in 2017 , the UK has had something of a morbid curiosity with the mammoth - sized clumps of gook skulk in our sewer system .
The tardy fatberg to do the rounds is a 64 - cadence ( 210 - foot ) fauna observe in Sidmouth , Devon – the largest of its variety to be ground by local H2O provider South West Water ( SWW ) . To put it into perspective , this particular monstrosity is about 8 meters ( 26 foot ) longer than the Leaning Tower of Pisa is tall .
Fortunately for residents of and visitant to the sea - facing township of Sidmouth , authorities located the ' Alban Berg “ in in force time ” and long before it posed any form of risk of exposure to beachgoers or risked blocking any toilets , BBC Newsreports .
Fatbergs are an abominable concoction of human body waste , healthful products , drugs , contraceptives , and other insoluble production covered in jellied fat , counterfeit from products that have been carelessly flushed down the bog . AsIFLSciencereported in 2017 , Thames Water forks out more than $ 1 million everysinglemonth to remove the swarm of fatbergs molest the UK capital thanks to residents ' willful disregard for right waste direction practice .
We wo n’t obtain out the weight of the Sidmouth fatberg until the inauspicious men and woman at SWW start to work on bump off it . However , it ’s unlikely to follow anywhere close to the one retrieve in Whitechapel , cheerfully nickname “ Fatty McFatberg ” , which came in at 130 MT ( 143 tons ) and a jaw - dropping 250 meters ( 820 feet ) tip - to - tip . It took a consecrated team of eight working every day for several weeks to transgress it down with the service of some high up - powered jet hose .
But even that brute of a fatberg pale in comparison to onefound near to the South Bankin fundamental London last April , a 750 - metre - farsighted ( 2,460 - groundwork ) monster . That is roughly twice the height of the Empire State Building – and three time the size of its record - breaking predecessor , Fatty McFatberg .
The latest discovery shows that fatbergs are a much orotund problem that we think – and even land dwellers are n’t good from the horrors that plague urban centers . The moral of the story – think before you flush .
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