Toy car 'parked illegally' in sewers in Cornwall
Mr Harris added: "It's amazing what turns up in our sewers and we really don't know how these mysterious items get there."He said SWW's teams were "constantly battling with culprits like wet wipes, cooking fat and cotton pads"."But sometimes we have a little surprise," added waste water operations manager Jenny Eamer.She said: "Some more recent finds have been a toy car that's blocked the sewer, a football, we've had traffic cones and once upon time we found a toy kids scooter."So yes, we never quite know what we may find when we're doing CCTV and sometimes we can't understand how an item the size that it is has managed to find its way into our sewer."The water firm clears about 8,500 avoidable blockages each year "at a cost of millions", Mr Harris said.Ms Eamer said: "Sewer pipes can be all sizes, they're not all big sort of London huge ones you can walk down."Be careful about what you're putting down sinks and the toilet. "All we really want are our three Ps, which is pee, paper and poo."
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