Wet wipes flushed down the toilet causing blockages have cost Wessex Water £5 million every year. The company, who maintain the sewerage across Dorset, Somerset, Wiltshire and parts of Gloucestershire and Hampshire, unblock 13,000 pipes every year on the public sewer network. This comes despite the high profile incident in 2017 where a 250 metre […]
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