coronavirus pandemic caused a setback.“We’ve been tracking the use, the problem of wet wipes over the last three years and before the lockdown we saw a reduction of up to 10 per cent, but during lockdown we saw an increase of up to 10 per cent,” said Dina Gillespie, Thames Water area operations manager at Mogden Sewage Treatment Works.“So a difference overall of about 20 per cent overall during lockdown.”With two million customers, the facility is one of the largest in Greater London.“On average we receive about 6,000 litres a second of sewage.
That’s enough to fill an Olympic-size swimming pool in seven minutes,” Gillespie told Global News during a site tour.Every day, workers check 88 settlement tanks to see if anything has made its way.