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DelMarVaNow.com: Too many wipes in Ocean City pipes

Posted Thu, 2013/08/08 - 3:21pm by RCAP

Reporting on a popular beach town in Maryland, the delmarvanow.com website said on July 28:

"There’s one thoroughly modern convenience that’s causing headaches for the people who run Ocean City’s sewer system: the so-called flushable wipe.

"Like a grown-up version of soothing baby wipes, these toilet paper accoutrements are advertised as safe for toilets. But problems can mount when they get into the rest of the sewer system.

"Wipes mimic flushable toilet paper, “but then when it gets in there, it doesn’t act like it,” said Jim Parsons, chief deputy director for Ocean City’s Public Works Department.­"

Read the full article [1]

Coincidentally, RCAP has just produced a video that addresses issue:

 

Source URL: http://www.rcap.org/node/1299

Links:
[1] http://www.delmarvanow.com/article/20130728/WCT01/307280026/Too-many-wipes-Ocean-City-pipes?gcheck=1
[2] http://www.rcap.org/taxonomy/term/1146
[3] http://www.rcap.org/taxonomy/term/436
[4] http://www.rcap.org/taxonomy/term/289
[5] http://www.rcap.org/taxonomy/term/1147
[6] http://www.rcap.org/taxonomy/term/1148