A fur coat, a sex toy, and a carpet. Housing and utilities aren't always to blame for utility breakdowns.
In recent days, several major cities have experienced sewer failures. Residents blame utility companies for neglecting their duties, while housing and utilities officials accuse residents of frequently misusing sewer systems.
😱In one of the microdistricts Astrakhan in the sewers stuck a four-meter-long solid "something" that required a 16-ton crane to remove.
"It looks like hardened cement that gets dumped down the drain during apartment renovations. This kind of 'something' is quite common for utility workers in all cities, and is especially common in sewer systems in new buildings." — a representative of Vodokanal from another region commented to NeMoskva;
😱B Cherepovets The utility workers retrieved a huge lump of wet wipes.
"The sewer system is used as a garbage dump. We usually pull out wet wipes—almost by the bucketful—cotton pads, swabs, hygiene products, hanging toilet air fresheners, plastic bags, and even curtains and tulle!"- complained Head of the Vodokanal sewerage networks Alexander Kirin;
😱Carpet got from the sewer Nizhny Tagil last week. In Volgograd because of a blockage had to be opened asphalt and pulled out car tires from the sewer. Rosvodokanal Krasnodar cesspool In February, more than 50 tons of garbage were removed from the network. The most surprising find was an enamel saucepan. At the beginning of the year, utility workers Tula caught a sex toy from the sewer, and at the end of last year in Perm pulled out fur coat;
😱General length sewerage networks in Russia - about 200 thousand kilometersMost of them were built in the 1970s, and in different regions they are worn out. from 80% to 90% sewer networks. To update them required order 20 trillion rublesBlockages lead to further deterioration of the networks, and untimely maintenance leads to pollution of rivers and the environment.
Photo: "Watermelon", Vodokanal-NT, "Water Supply Concessions", t.me/mcu_krd
