![]() ![]() They likely had no clue that as they wandered home, a crew was mobilizing for a long, cold night spent extracting the mess beneath the street.Īndy Howard knew something was awry, but he didn’t know exactly what to brace himself for: The most reliable way to map the status of the sewer system is to remove a maintenance hole cover and dispatch a camera down to look. Most of the people wandering the blocks of London’s Covent Garden neighborhood on a chilly evening in September 2019, nursing frothy beverages in the gold glow beaming from café windows or hurrying past sleepy tobacconists and hat shops, probably had no idea that the pipes far below their feet were gunked up with globs of fat. Excerpted from Sewer, by former Atlas Obscura Senior Editor Jessica Leigh Hester, available November 3, 2022, from Bloomsbury. ![]()
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