The Town of West Seneca is urging residents to stop flushing wipes of any kind, even those marketed as “flushable,” because ...

Plumbers reveal the worst item to flush down your toilet and what problems it could cause in your plumbing, including other ...

But many of the wipes don’t break down like toilet paper. Instead, they can end up stuck in pipes, creating massive, messy clumps of congealed grease, fat, and—you guessed it—wipes.

Crews say over the past three weeks they’ve seen an increase in flushable wipes causing issues for the sewage system. They ...

Rags, wipes, vapes and other trash clogged the device, forcing it to shut down for a week until a crew could vacuum the blockage from piping. Blockages also lead to wastewater spills, putting the ...

Workers at the Temecula Valley Regional Water Reclamation Facility are used to stinky situations. But what irks them is not what they smell, but what they see — namely, vape pens, bathroom wipes ...