Fatberg

Quick meaning: Fatberg is a noun meaning A large accumulation of fat and discarded toiletries which clogs sewers.

Meaning

A large accumulation of fat and discarded toiletries which clogs sewers.

Example Sentences

Months ago a tunnel was clogged with a fatberg. It took a team of workers a month to move it.

Thames Water has become the latest object lesson in the predictable and predicted folly of privatised monopolies, aided by a regulator that’s an even bigger wet wipe than the fatbergs bunging up the sewers.

Then I worked in the sewers of Manchester – a six month stint of that, jabbing pressure-water-poles at fatbergs, tonnes of used kebab grease and congealed sump oil, woven together with thousands of used wet wipes.

A 250-metre long fatberg weighing 130 tonnes which was blocking an east London sewer has been cleared after a nine-week "battle". The solid mass of congealed fat, wet wipes, nappies, oil and condoms was found in the Victorian-era tunnel in Whitechapel in September. Thames Water said it had taken longer to clear than expected because of the damage it caused to the sewer.

Word Forms

• fatbergs

Related Words

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