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Coronavirus and use of wet wipes blocking sewers, leading to challenges at treatment plants
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.