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.

The Jan. 3 PBS News Hour featured science correspondent Miles O'Brien plunging into a muck of that which rhymes with "it" to investigate our ailing country's sewage system.

Here's a written account of his story of what happened underground.

The webpage included a couple of videos: