• Question: does the sewers smell like what people say they do

    Asked by Thomas12321 to Charlene, Shruti, Mark, Faranak, Douglas, Alistair on 4 Mar 2019. This question was also asked by Happy Waffle.
    • Photo: Shruti Turner

      Shruti Turner answered on 4 Mar 2019: last edited 4 Mar 2019 4:24 pm

      Hmm, I would assume so. I’m guessing from sewage plants that you can smell on hot days when you drive past them! It’s just a massive version of the bathroom after someone has taken a long visit….

    • Photo: Charlene Chung

      Charlene Chung answered on 4 Mar 2019: last edited 5 Mar 2019 7:40 pm

      When I’m out on site and looking down open manholes, there is quite a strong smell of sewage!
      The sewer gases smell is quite a distinctive smell similar to a rotten egg smell.

      Some sewers have a FOG smell (which stands for Fat, Oil and Grease) and it is when drains are blocked up from having those poured down it. It smells strong and nasty.

      Think of the everything that is flushed down a toilet and all the smell of dirty water mixed together, so quite smelly.

    • Photo: Faranak Bahrami

      Faranak Bahrami answered on 5 Mar 2019:

      😀 I’m no expert in that but I think it should do… sometimes you can smell it when you passing by one of them…

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