DAVENPORT, Iowa (KWQC) – An everyday item in homes; flushable wipes can create more problems than the commodity they serve.
At home, you flush them and might think they’ve disappeared, but this action is just the tip of the iceberg of the problems they create.
“When 100s or 1000s of these wipes enter the collection system and don’t disintegrate or break apart, it leads to a critical infrastructure failure,” said Eric Kerr, plant manager at the Davenport wastewater treatment plant…