CHARLESTON, S.C. — Divers spent two days deep inside a South Carolina sewer, pulling out huge balls of oily, black used wet wipes and baby wipes that had clogged intake pumps. The Charleston Water System posted pictures of the masses of wipes on its Twitter account. The cloth wipes, which have rapidly become popular, need to be thrown away because they are woven and don’t break down in water. But mostly, employees have found better ways to keep the balls of used wipes from clogging pipes and pumps, Fairey said. But those rains never came, and the pumps pulled in clots of wipes that were lining the bottom of the pipes, Fairey said.

Source: National Post October 20, 2018 16:48 UTC