WASTEWATER TALES

Stories from the treatment plant, from life and the bottom of the bars.

Zdzichu in his work attire and a cap marked "Kettle" listens at a pipe in the dark pumping station, next to him a watchful cat and a control panel

🔊 The pumping station of horror: when the pumping station started talking

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🔊 The pumping station of horror: when the pumping station began to speak Saved: Tuesday, 03:11 - that is, the time when neither people nor pumps should speak. And yet... 🌙 03:11 - A voice from the depths There are places in the wastewater treatment plant that even rats avoid by a wide margin. One of them is the main pumping station - which is a huge concrete bunker with a pumping station, [...]

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The night operator and his second job - or how monitoring uncovered Romek's secrets. TikTok from the anaerobe, the disappearing mop and lifehacks from sewage. A true story from a wastewater treatment plant that went viral.

Operator at night and his second job

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🕵️‍♂️ Monitoring sees everything: The night operator and his second job Saved: Wednesday, 02:43 - the treatment plant is sleeping, the bacteria are working, and on the monitoring... someone is dancing with the recirculation pipe. Each treatment plant has one such night operator. Quiet, punctual, too polite during the day, too active at night. In our case it was Romek. Romek looked like a man who

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Smartphone pulled from treatment plant after full cycle

📱 A smartphone that has survived it all

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📱 The smartphone that survived everything Saved: Thursday, 07:16 Unusual mornings at the wastewater treatment plant usually start with coffee, an alarm on the grate or a new color on the sludge surface. But this time was different. Franek, our grating master, rushed into the duty room with a face as if after third-degree contact. - Guess what I fished out of the grates today? - Dead

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Cartoon-style illustration: children in vests stand next to a sewage treatment plant, from which a fountain of foam is erupting from a retention tank

Reservoir and Open Day - the story of the sewage geyser

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🚿 Retention Tank and Open Day - don't mix the two The idea was simple: environmental education in practice. Show young people how the treatment plant works. Make them realize that the water from their tap goes back somewhere someday. Five classes came - elementary school. a total of 112 children, 8 teachers, 3 guides and two people from the municipality with a camera. Everything was prepared.

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Image showing carp with health and safety equipment - in secondary settling tank

Carp in a settling tank - an unusual story from a sewage treatment plant

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🐟 Carp in the settling tank - is it an aquarium yet? Some sewage treatment plant stories start with an alarm. Others - with a phone call. This one started with... a splash. An authentic, live splash in the secondary settling tank. At first we thought it was a stray duck. Then - maybe a rat? But what jumped out from under the surface and waved its fin like an acrobat

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A cartoon illustration in the style of Rick and Morty showing a man with a haircut like Son Goku throwing batteries into a sewer manhole. In the background, the sewage treatment plant explodes and falls, with a clear message: don't throw toxins down the drain.

Batteries in the sewage system - a story of failure of the biology of the treatment plant

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🧨 When someone threw in the faucets - and all the sludge went silent Faucets in the sewer system - Some failures come with a bang. Others - quietly. Like this one. The sewage looked normal. The oxygen was there. The temperature was good. But something... wasn't right. In the morning we noticed that the sludge was not falling. The surface of the chamber was covered with a thin foam, as if someone had made a latte, only instead of a

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Cartoon-style illustration showing a paper mill worker in navy blue dungarees, standing in the rising level of sewage flowing out of a sewage grate, with the caption "sent back to sender :)". A paper machine and industrial pipes are visible in the background.

🧻 Wastewater from the paper mill - and how it got back to the producer

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🧻 Wastewater from the paper mill - and how it went back to the manufacturer Some stories are written by life. And others... the paper. On Monday morning, when the treatment plant was still yawning after the weekend, something began to happen in the tributary system. The operator noticed the unusual color of the wastewater - light gray, like diluted cellulose - and an odor reminiscent of wet cardboard. It only took a few clicks to locate the source of the

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Realistic photo of cat sitting at monitors in wastewater treatment plant duty station

🎆 Duty officer dropped out on New Year's Eve - monitoring was taken over by neighbors' cat

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🎆 The duty officer fell off on New Year's Eve - the monitoring was taken over by a neighbor's cat on December 31, 10:47 p.m. At the "Stružka Dolna" wastewater treatment plant, relative calm reigned. The noise of sludge, the steady clicks of pumps and the lights on the SCADA panel blinking like Christmas decorations from the market. On duty was Marian - a distinguished operator, a legend of the plant, a man who knew every pipe better than his own PIN.

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A mechanic pulling a sock from the impeller of a sewage pump at an industrial pumping station.

🚿 From the life of a pumper - 5 situations you will only experience when working at a pumping station

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🚿 Pumpman's job - 5 situations you'll only experience working at a pumping station Working at a sewage pumping station isn't just rubber boots, hoses and smells that squeeze tears from your eyes. It's a whole other world: full of absurdities, surprises and micro-dramas. Here are 5 situations that every true pompa player knows firsthand. 🧤 1. 🧦 Lost sock - the reason.

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