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The simple act of throwing a wet washcloth down the toilet has a number of more serious than we may think consequences.
Vasta open any pump pumping stations driving the sewage to the sewage to discover what is globally called "the monster of the sewers" formed by a conglomerate of fabric can clog public sewers, aggravate flooding, causing overflow fecal water, and great expense in cleaning and maintenance of the network.
To raise awareness of this problem, which is not outside the municipality of San Javier, it has launched a campaign that presented this morning the Councillor for Public Services, Maria Dolores Ruiz and manager northern Hidrogea, Inmaculada Sánchez in a ceremony that was attended by the Town Planning, Antonio Luengo, the headman mayor of Euro-Roda, Anabela Aleixo, and the manager of Hidrogea in San Javier Juan Jaime Ferrer.
The presentation of the campaign was carried out graphically on the pumping station located in Euro-Roda, whose open pump showed a large accumulation of such residue was beginning to shape the "monster of the sewers" whose elimination is between 4 and 5 euros per inhabitant per year in the Region of Murcia, according to Inmaculada Sánchez.
The campaign, "towelettes. Do not ever throw the toilet," which can be followed in www.elmonstruodelascloacas.com, will intensify in La Manga and Santiago de la Ribera in the coming days, said Maria Dolores Ruiz who highlighted both the environmental consequences as the additional costs of maintaining the network jam caused by the wipes according to a study that could take as long as 600 years to decompose, in front of the toilet paper that reaches the network decomposition, Inmaculada Sanchez said.
The representative of Hidrogea, clarified that the consequences begin with jams in the building, causing a cost to residents, after passing the sewerage network, pumping stations, which are also blocked, and previous filters purifiers.
According to general estimates, up to 2,800 tons of wipes are thrown down the toilet causing network traffic jams that can also aggravate the effects of flooding.
The information campaign, promoted in San Javier by the City, Hidrogea and by the Bank of Wastewater Treatment in the Region of Murcia, (Esamur), will be distributed with the distribution of a series of brochures with which it aims to raise awareness the population on proper use of the wipes that in no case should be thrown into the toilet.
Source: Ayuntamiento de San Javier
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