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Clothes maketh the blockage

Back in June, Disconnector reported Northumbrian Water’s discovery that a discarded bra was the reason for a blocked sewer and some localised flooding problems in the
northeast.
This brought a snort of derision from Anglian Water. Staff at the company’s Cambridge sewage treatment works recovered
an entire wardrobe’s worth of clothes, which had been dumped down a drain and flushed through to the works.
Disconnector wonders about the story behind that particular, ahem, deposit.

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