Unblocking a Storm Drain.mp4

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This was one of a series of sequences produced with Lightwave 3D, for a City of Norfolk Public Utilities training program, with overall production by Rick Voight. Several training videos were produced to help employees understand how to deploy special truck-mounted equipment at ground level to clear blockages 40 feet or deeper below street level. 

The most common form of blockage results from congealed kitchen grease, poured down drains by residents. Turns out, kitchen cooking oils and grease cling to the surfaces of the underground pipes. Accumulated grease narrows the passage and captures twigs, debris, clothing, limbs, leaves, pebbles, and lots of nasty solids. Yuck. I have never poured grease down the drain since that!