{"id":5064,"date":"2019-04-23T06:29:16","date_gmt":"2019-04-23T06:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/?p=5064"},"modified":"2019-04-23T06:29:16","modified_gmt":"2019-04-23T06:29:16","slug":"giant-concreteberg-blocks-sewers-in-islington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/giant-concreteberg-blocks-sewers-in-islington\/","title":{"rendered":"Giant \u2018concreteberg\u2019 blocks sewers in Islington"},"content":{"rendered":"

Work is set to start this week to remove a giant ‘concreteberg\u2019 from sewers under central London.<\/p>\n

The blockage has been described as ” an industrial amount of solidified cement .”<\/p>\n

Thames Water said it is 100 metres long and weighs 105 tonnes \u2013 as heavy as a blue whale.<\/p>\n

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The concreteberg is blocking three Victorian sewers in Islington and work to remove it will last at least two months.<\/p>\n

Teams will have to manually chip away at the rock-hard mass using jackhammer pneumatic drills and high-pressure jets.<\/p>\n

Alex Saunders, Thames Water operations manager, said: \u201cNormally blockages are caused by fat, oil and wet wipes building up in the sewer but unfortunately in this case it\u2019s rock-hard concrete.<\/p>\n

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“It\u2019s in there and set to the Victorian brickwork, so we need to chip away at it to get it removed.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is not the first time damage has been caused by people pouring concrete into our sewers but it\u2019s certainly the worst we\u2019ve seen.<\/p>\n

“It\u2019s very frustrating and takes a great amount of time and effort to resolve. We\u2019re now doing everything we can to deal with it as quickly as possible, making sure our customers don\u2019t have to suffer because of this mindless abuse of our network.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Thames Water has launched an investigation into how the concrete got into the sewer and who could be liable for removal costs.<\/p>\n

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from Construction Enquirer http:\/\/bit.ly\/2DoJTX9<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Work is set to start this week to remove a giant ‘concreteberg\u2019 from sewers under central London. The blockage has been described as ” an industrial amount of solidified cement .” Thames Water said it is 100 metres long and weighs 105 tonnes \u2013 as heavy as a blue whale. The concreteberg is blocking three […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":147,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-5064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-construction-enquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5064"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5065,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5064\/revisions\/5065"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}