There are so many points along the way, he said, where things can go wrong. With one finger, he squiggled in the dust the meandering route of the Thames and pointed out the sewage works along its course.
While his crew set up blue gates and orange cones to partition themselves from traffic, Howard perched a coffee cup on the dusty cab of his black Toyota Hilux pickup. Leaning against their trucks, Howard and his colleagues staged their gear and incubated their plan. James, next to a sign pointing visitors toward Buckingham Palace.
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So, around 10:00 p.m., Howard and his crew started setting up on a brick patch near the posh corner of Pall Mall and St. In the corners of London that buzz with daytime bustle, the overnight shift is a less-disruptive time to descend into the subterranean network of tunnels that carries wastewater around the city. They likely had no clue that as they wandered home, a crew was mobilizing for a long, cold night spent extracting the mess beneath the street.Īndy Howard knew something was awry, but he didn’t know exactly what to brace himself for: The most reliable way to map the status of the sewer system is to remove a maintenance hole cover and dispatch a camera down to look. Most of the people wandering the blocks of London’s Covent Garden neighborhood on a chilly evening in September 2019, nursing frothy beverages in the gold glow beaming from café windows or hurrying past sleepy tobacconists and hat shops, probably had no idea that the pipes far below their feet were gunked up with globs of fat. Excerpted from Sewer, by former Atlas Obscura Senior Editor Jessica Leigh Hester, available November 3, 2022, from Bloomsbury.
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