Bread baskets found stuffed in sewer
WATER workers were left gobsmacked after finding a haul of 30 industrial-size plastic bread baskets stuffed down a city sewer.
The discovery was made in Cardonald last week when Scottish Water workers were carrying out flooding checks at a nearby cemetery.
Upon opening up a sewer manhole cover in Cemetery Street, they were met with the huge pile.
Speaking about the extreme example of inappropriate items being put into Glasgow’s waste water system, network maintenance operative, Andrew Szolowski, said: “Why anyone would think it was a good idea to throw these baskets down a sewer is beyond me – it’s not clever and it could have caused serious problems with flooding.
“It took us around three hours to pull the baskets free, time which would have been much better spent elsewhere had the individuals responsible thought about the consequences of their actions and not done this.”
Scottish Water’s ‘Keep the Water Cycle Running Smoothly’ campaign has been running for four years and educates the public on how they can help avoid clogging up the cycle.
Almost 100 blockages per day are reported across Scotland and about 80% of them are caused by people putting the wrong things down sinks and toilets.
Customers can learn more about what should and should not be poured down sinks and drains or flushed down toilets at scottishwater.co.uk/cycle.
Readers can also learn simple ways they can save their drains, protect their homes and the local environment.