That kitchen grease isn't sliding through sewers
Thursday, April 21, 2011 - 17:00
in Health & Medicine
Next time you're about to pour that extra cooking grease down the drain, you might want to think first: In the sewers below, the grease transforms into hardened deposits of soaplike chemicals that can cause serious headaches for sewer maintenance workers and can pose environmental and health hazards by causing sewer overflows.