August 19, 2026 — 6:55am

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Plenty of weird things are pulled out of Brisbane’s sewerage system – toys, phones, false teeth, half a surfboard and even a snake – but if you ask the man responsible for looking after those pipes, they’ve got nothing on wet wipes.

The wipes, flushed from toilets around the city, become glued together by a mash of sewage to form long, dark monsters known as fatbergs.

“You can imagine what it smells like,” said David Brooker, Urban Utilities’ executive leader of operations and maintenance.

Brooker runs a team of…

Read the full article at SMH.COM.AU