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مسلسل Sewer Divers مترجم - Episode 1
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00:00Sewer work is dirty business, but it's never boring.
00:05If that water hits me, it's a problem. A real problem.
00:08Whoever you can imagine is in that water.
00:10Not much.
00:12From a flooded basement.
00:13Unbelievable. Unbelievable.
00:15This is dangerous. Definitely a hazard.
00:18To a massive blockage threatening to wipe out an entire town.
00:21Worst case scenario, that backup comes and goes above the manhole.
00:24Now you have morning commute covered in .
00:31The one thing that separates us from the animals has to be indoor plumbing.
00:36The sewer is one of the pillars of civilization.
00:39That's flowing like the ancient rivers of Babylon.
00:41But these systems are centuries old and they're falling apart.
00:45Oh, wow. Damn, poop coming up.
00:46Thankfully, these heroes of the underworld rise to the challenge.
00:50Divers in water.
00:53Oh, wow. We're gonna get to the bottom of this.
00:55To keep us out of the sludge and slime.
01:10I'd say the craziest thing I've ever pulled out of a sewer.
01:13Probably a dead deer.
01:14It was a buck.
01:16We done pulled out everything.
01:18Knives.
01:20The bowling balls.
01:21We done pulled out so many different things out of these lines.
01:24It's like, what's next?
01:26Treasure hunt.
01:28We actually found a gun.
01:29Dead rats.
01:30We actually pulled out a bike one time.
01:32Can I say, like, body?
01:39Despite all the strange things that can be found in it, one of humanity's greatest inventions is undoubtedly the sewer.
01:47Can you imagine living in a world that doesn't have sewer systems?
01:50Back in the 1800s.
01:52It's a little **** show.
01:53You **** in a bucket and then throw it out your window.
01:57Can you imagine living like that?
01:58At least nowadays it's a little more civilized.
02:01The human race produces 640 billion pounds of feces every year.
02:06And without a working sewer system, all that waste would pile up outside of your house in a hurry.
02:12As far as the public's opinion of us, I feel we are out of sight, out of mind.
02:17I feel like people go home from a long day of work, flush their toilet, take it for granted.
02:24Coming down, Joey.
02:26They're not all the same length.
02:27Watch them.
02:27Like that.
02:29Call me Dirty Water Don for a reason.
02:31I make my living off of diving and ****.
02:33Don's a sewer diver.
02:34A private contractor willing to get his hands dirty.
02:38Really dirty.
02:39Doing jobs that are too dangerous for other sewer workers to do.
02:43That's flowing like the ancient rivers of Babylon.
02:46Smells like ****.
02:49Today that means taking a deep dive into a pipe full of raw sewage for the city of Belleville, New
02:55Jersey.
02:57They're not getting the flow they want.
02:58And they don't know why.
02:59And so they can't get a lot of guys to volunteer to jump into this ****.
03:02So that's where we come in.
03:04It could be a catastrophic failure in the pipe.
03:06And the pipe has collapsed on itself over the winter months.
03:09And then what?
03:10Then we're digging up the street.
03:11Maybe if it's something simple of a clog of a natural particle.
03:14So let's say a branch or a log.
03:16You don't know what could be anything.
03:17Pig and a poke.
03:18It could be a dead animal.
03:19It could be a piece of fence.
03:21It could be accumulation of trash.
03:23It could be a big clump of just, I don't know, satch-watch ****.
03:25Who knows?
03:26But we're going to find out.
03:27The city relies on a sewer design from the 1800s called a combined sewer.
03:34It merges three different wastewater sources.
03:38First, there's the sanitary sewage coming from toilets, sinks, and showers.
03:42That joins industrial wastewater from places like factories and workshops.
03:48Finally, rainwater runoff from storm drains mixes into the same pipe.
03:54And gravity carries everything to a city pump station.
03:58Here, it's pumped to a treatment plant to be cleaned,
04:02before being sent out into rivers, lakes, or oceans.
04:05But the system only works if that big river of repulsion keeps flowing.
04:11If you get a backup, how are you going to flush your toilet?
04:14You know, everyone takes it for granted.
04:17Well, what if you couldn't do that?
04:18What if the entire town couldn't do that?
04:20Worst case scenario, that backup comes and goes above the manhole.
04:23Now you have morning commute covered in ****.
04:26Right now, what we're going to encounter, we're going to lower it down.
04:29I got Joey on the crank.
04:31You on the rig.
04:32Comms will relay to every single one of you.
04:35Everyone listen to him.
04:36He is God when I'm in that hole.
04:38What he says you do.
04:40If you have a question, it makes you ask it quick.
04:43Today we have my backup diver.
04:44God forbid there's an incident where I need someone to come get me or retrieve me.
04:47There's stuff we have on our comms.
04:49We have Steve.
04:51And then my brother John, who's my tender.
04:52The diver's only as good as his tender.
04:55And you can't get any better than your brother.
04:57John handles the most critical part of the rig.
05:00The air supply that keeps his baby brother alive.
05:03The current's moving real fast.
05:06So if he takes off down the current, I got to make sure I'm on my A game.
05:09Because it's not only someone else's life is in your hands down there.
05:12It's your brother.
05:13So your mom will get quite upset if you kill him on the job.
05:16Thanksgiving dinner will never be the same.
05:18We're suiting up now.
05:19We don't want anything ripping.
05:21So please, when you lower me, be mindful.
05:23If you see something where I'm going to get hung up on it, please tell me.
05:25We got current flowing to the south.
05:27I hit that water, current's going to want to take me.
05:30Be mindful of that.
05:32If that water hits me, it's a problem.
05:34A real problem.
05:35Whoever you can imagine is in that water.
05:38Everyone go with that?
05:39Okay.
05:40Let's go.
05:41Saddle up.
05:41The raw sewage carries a deadly mix of toxins and disease.
05:45Industrial waste is noxious enough to burn human skin.
05:49It also contains microbes and excrement that can destroy the stomach and lungs.
05:54You want me to lift this up and put them on you?
05:57Don's first line of defense is this $3,000 vulcanized rubber suit.
06:02Good.
06:03Good.
06:04Good.
06:05They use dish soap to ease on a double layer of gloves.
06:12It's like a fish.
06:14Slimy fish.
06:15Once the soap cuts off the gloves, it's over.
06:18Finally, a helmet weighing over 30 pounds seals off his head.
06:22The helmet allows him to breathe and to talk with his team, while avoiding the toxic soup around him.
06:28When it comes to hazmat dives, like this one is, you rely on as much air as you could possibly
06:34get,
06:34which what we use is a fresh air supply.
06:37We use a compressor system.
06:38And we're hooked to an umbilical that goes down to my waist.
06:41And from my waist to a harness, it goes to my helmet.
06:44In my helmet, I have communication lines and I have air.
06:48Now, all those components are all tethered within a rig system known as an umbilical.
06:54He's praying, of course.
06:58One love.
07:03But once Don's crammed inside the 36-inch pipe, he's all alone.
07:16How am I flushed by goldfish a couple years ago? See if you find it.
07:28Hey, guys. Good morning.
07:30Brother Murph, hold it down, brother.
07:32All right.
07:34In Mount Vernon, New York, sewage problems are handled by the city's emergency sewer division.
07:40What the hell is that smell?
07:42Oh.
07:43Ooh.
07:44Yeah.
07:44That's our morning wake up right there.
07:46That smell right there.
07:47Jesus Christ.
07:47Let us know exactly what we doing today.
07:49Damn.
07:50That right there hit the nostril.
07:53Almost put a tear in my eye.
07:54Did I ever think I'd be waking up dealing with s*** every morning? No.
07:58I definitely wouldn't have thought that s***. Never. Never.
08:02This morning, the crew's on their way to deal with a common problem in Mount Vernon.
08:07Raw sewage flooding a homeowner's basement.
08:11But she called again on Wall Street?
08:13Yeah.
08:14She's calling about a tool back up.
08:17She might have, like, two feet of water in her basement.
08:19Uh-huh.
08:19We gonna need the scuba gear.
08:21Oh, my goodness.
08:22Yo.
08:22We gonna need scuba gear.
08:24We gonna need the snorkeling gear.
08:25We gonna be swimming in s***.
08:27Oh, no.
08:29Hello, Ms. Horton.
08:30How are you?
08:30Oh, I'm fine.
08:31How's everything?
08:32How you feeling?
08:33How many years have I...
08:34Oh.
08:35I am exhausted.
08:36Oh.
08:37Too much going on.
08:38As always.
08:38I'm exhausted from this problem in my basement.
08:42We know this house because it's Ms. Horton's house.
08:46She had backups and pads before.
08:49Um, so, you know, we was familiar with it.
08:54Oh, wow.
08:55Damn.
08:56Yeah.
08:56Is it up that high?
08:57Yeah.
08:57Yeah.
08:58Toilet paper and then poop coming up.
09:02So, we got a lot of restructure going on in the city for sewers.
09:07It's just due to old infrastructure.
09:09I can tell it's sewer and you keep seeing toilet paper come through.
09:13Malvern is so small, everyone's family.
09:16It's crazy.
09:17We feel for the people.
09:17Well, this could be our aunts, our grandmothers.
09:19Oh, man, Ms. Horton, I didn't know you still was going through this.
09:23It's been some years.
09:25This is too much.
09:26I'm getting a little tired.
09:27No, we helped you as much as we can.
09:29I know.
09:29This is like...
09:30Unbelievable.
09:31Unbelievable.
09:32Yes.
09:33So, please, no one step down into that basement.
09:37When it's down the morning, this is dangerous.
09:40Definitely a hazard.
09:41Yeah.
09:41I'm expecting, oh, it's a little bit of water.
09:43I'll be able to see the traps, maybe pop the traps and let a little of the water out.
09:47I get down there and the whole basement's flooded.
09:50So, I'm just like, wow, we have a basement full of water.
09:55And I'm looking at her and she says she's been dealing with it since last night.
09:59So, I wasn't really expecting that it was that flooded because we haven't had it in years.
10:04So, when I seen that, I'm like, uh-oh, we have a problem.
10:07The homeowners are actually paying the price.
10:11It falls back on them.
10:12Like I said, her basement's flooded.
10:14The damages that are done to her basement, the priceless heirlooms that she may have.
10:20You know, people will be having a lot of pictures and, you know, heartfelt items in their basements and stored,
10:29you know.
10:30And you put it away for safety and then next thing you know, everything is actually flooded and you lose
10:36them.
10:36So, it's definitely followed on the homeowners and a lot of the business owners and stuff.
10:41It's just too much, too much.
10:44Mount Vernon's sewers are over a century old and the original clay pipes are outdated and falling apart.
10:51During storms, the system is easily overwhelmed and sewage gets pushed back up into people's homes.
10:57Fixing the system will cost an estimated $200 million.
11:01And for Ramon, that can't come soon enough.
11:05All the years I've been here, this is the worst that I've ever seen.
11:09I've been here for 23 years.
11:11It's like the city.
11:12You know, everybody says, oh, he might be exaggerating, Mike exaggerating.
11:16No, we're not exaggerating.
11:17Replacing these pipes and relining them is definitely time.
11:21That's a part of fixing the wound.
11:24We've been band-aiding everything.
11:25Now it's definitely time to rip the band-aid off, much as it may hurt, and just heal the wounds.
11:31But first, they need to stop the toxic flow into Ms. Horton's basement.
11:36They definitely work on this.
11:38Definitely.
11:38This is...
11:40Well, thank you.
11:41I feel more encouraged.
11:43Ah, I'm upset that you gotta go through this again.
11:46Ah.
11:47We're gonna get to the bottom of this.
11:49Right, Ray?
11:49Right.
11:50We're gonna get to the bottom of this?
11:57Divers in water!
11:58Divers in water!
12:00Divers in water!
12:00On the other end of this umbilical cord, Dirty Water Don is crawling through two feet
12:05of raw sewage.
12:06The pipe's 15 feet below ground and just 36 inches wide.
12:11Visibility's next to none.
12:13We're talking about all kinds of particles, particulates in the water.
12:16Even if you have light, the particulates illuminate.
12:19So you're gonna be able to see this.
12:21It does nothing for you.
12:22You gotta feel your way through it.
12:23So you're there for a minute to realize, I don't wanna be touching this anymore.
12:27And everything has a, I like to call it, baby **** consistency.
12:31So everything you touch, you squish first, then you get something hard underneath it.
12:35And you gotta keep doing that until you find what you're looking for.
12:38It's terrible, actually.
12:42Don's looking for a blockage 150 feet away.
12:46Yo, this pipe is morbid.
12:50But the sewage is flowing dangerously fast.
12:53Pull diver out of the water.
12:55Get a pull diver out of the water.
12:56Up and out.
12:57Up and out.
12:57So his team brings him back up to the surface.
13:02Now we're getting to the grimy parts.
13:04So be careful how you splash up in your face and whatnot.
13:07Roger.
13:08It's slipping **** down here.
13:10A little faster.
13:12Yep, just like that.
13:16Slow and steady.
13:18Keep going.
13:19Keep going.
13:20Come on.
13:20Tell him to try to keep his head straight.
13:23He's gonna start hitting it in the flashlight.
13:26Eyes on diver.
13:27Keep going.
13:31All right, keep going.
13:37Stop.
13:41Add the hot, Steve.
13:42Add the helmet.
13:43Dive into manholes.
13:44It's the harshest environment.
13:45It was not designed.
13:47I know man's in the title.
13:48It was not designed for me to go putzing around down there.
13:52You're dealing with ****.
13:53claustrophobia.
13:54You're dealing with the fact that you can't see where you are, get disoriented.
13:57You're in a washing machine.
13:58The bottom of the water was moving substantially faster than the top of the water.
14:03The water was fast up top.
14:04Visually you could see it.
14:05But the bottom was even worse.
14:06I couldn't hit bottom.
14:08That current ripped me off bottom.
14:09I couldn't stay level.
14:11I noticed where I was too buoyant.
14:13And because of my buoyancy, I couldn't get to my location and get under the water line
14:16to work.
14:18So we're gonna put some weight on me.
14:20I didn't realize how fast that current was moving.
14:22I could not get to bottom.
14:23For this next run, we're gonna have to get as much weight as we got in the trailer.
14:26But it's moving like something.
14:28So let's get the weight out.
14:30Get the belt out already.
14:31That's good.
14:31I can't work in this condition.
14:33Let's get the weight out, all right?
14:34All right.
14:36So when it comes to adding weight in this scenario, we use a leaded weight belt.
14:40I also have ankle weights.
14:41Because if you don't use ankle weights, what will happen is your dry suit can become inverted.
14:47And if you move too fast in any direction, your little feet go up in the air, full air, and
14:51you can't get back down.
14:5390 extra pounds of weight for a total of 150 pounds of gear should give Don enough traction to crawl
15:01through up to 150 feet of pipe.
15:03But carrying extra weight means he's in danger of quickly getting fatigued.
15:11Divers in the water.
15:18What's your depth?
15:19Down a still blower, in there.
15:22Keep lowering.
15:23Slag diver.
15:23Slag diver.
15:24Slag diver.
15:25Slag diver.
15:28Slag diver.
15:29Slack diver.
15:29Slag in the umbilical indicates that Don has reached the bottom of the pipe and is no longer at the
15:34mercy of the current.
15:37so i came back up discussing my team and we put 90 pounds of weight on me which
15:42it's good on one hand because now i can stay stationary and i can directly go where i need to
15:47go but i also have 90 pounds of weight on me so every step is that much more difficult
15:52so yeah it helps but it's also a different level of challenges so you got to learn to
15:56overcome those challenges and make every step methodical and thought out to know where you're
16:01going that water was boogieing i said a bit of 10 knots everything down there is either slipper
16:07than a seal's ass or it was just covered in it was just slippery but it adds more challenges
16:11like can you imagine getting hurt or sustaining an injury and if i had to pick the least favorite
16:16place for me to get injured it has to be a 36 inch sewer pipe you got a visual
16:44when don freeze the blockage it releases a back flow of water and sewage that overwhelms them
16:59in mount vernon sewage is backing up into miss horton's basement right now the water's like
17:06you can just see it like moving and that means to me like well my experience is coming in it's
17:12actually coming in so the water level would go up but there's probably floor drains and and it's
17:19seeping out you know the the length of the basement so it's not rising yet but if it still
17:24does this it will eventually rise most sewer backups are caused by clogs in the pipe wipes and
17:30sanitary products bind together with fat oils and grease to form a solid barrier and when the sewage
17:38hits it there's nowhere to go except back up the pipe and into your home um i would definitely
17:45suggest a courtesy flush because we got a little bit of bubbling going on definitely you don't want
17:51to keep her waiting too long ramon's first step is to try and flush any such blockages out and with
17:57the water level threatening to rise he needs to act fast but first he needs a special truck equipped to
18:05handle the task what's the eta on um i just called him i just called him he might be out
18:12he might be
18:13maybe five minutes away now okay
18:22for civilians a courtesy flush is meant to stop a bad smell before it reaches anyone else
18:28for the sewer crew a courtesy flush is created by a flusher truck that can blast out water and suck
18:35up debris with extreme power first the truck shoots a jet of water down the manhole then the water goes
18:41into the main pipe and forces its way through the sanitary lines known as laterals that connect every
18:47house to the system at 2 000 psi the water pressure is powerful enough to blast away most minor clogs
18:54and to finish the job the water's then sucked back up into the truck guzzling up any debris
19:00but the process is not without risk i've been definitely baptized what we call baptized when you
19:07pull the nozzle out the water doesn't stop the hose got to come out as soon as it comes out
19:11you know it
19:11squirts you all over your body and everything like that everybody wants one way or another is
19:16definitely gonna get squirted all the rookies we watch and we wait for them to get this they'll uh flush
19:25and they'll pull the hose back the wrong way with the jets going and you'll get splashed from head to
19:30toe and you just watch it and the look on everybody's face it just dripping down your face
19:37your mouth and you just in shock right now like oh my god ah you losing your mind we had
19:45a guy stripped
19:46completely into his underwear and just take me home take me home take me to my car unbelievable
19:53in mount vernon the flusher truck is driven and operated by bobby a 25 year veteran of the sewers
20:00emergency crew this is to turn my water on i'm gonna turn this on when we don't get no water
20:06pressure
20:07on
20:13off
20:14these are the controls this is what controls everything in the back or the front i should say
20:23there's the vacuum this button right here controls my boom right here pull the boom up
20:32i turn it up
20:34whoo
20:35whoo
20:43whoo
20:43i want to shut it down real quick
20:50everything shuts off
20:53you got my big boy right here this nozzle here does justice these are all the jetties right here
20:59this is the biggest one we have right here if a block is just really backed up
21:03i bring her out she's gonna get the job done bobby gets to work sending this device called the warthog
21:11into the sewers below miss horton's house this is what we do
21:17this is what we do i get to the top i won't forget about you
21:23we don't forget about the little people right
21:26yo
21:27yo he's flushing in now
21:28yeah
21:30all right tell him to pull back fast
21:32see if we get that vacuum effect
21:34he said to pull shoot it down that way and pull it back mad fast
21:38if the flush clears the blockage the sewage will quickly recede
21:43right now as long as we still got that little bubbling gurgling going on that's showing me that water's coming
21:48in
21:48it's definitely not going out
21:50despite the best efforts of bobby and his warthog
21:53the signs tell ramona blockage is not miss horton's problem
21:57it did a little breathe it breathed meaning it it act like it wanted to go down and out and
22:03then it came right back up
22:05bobby joins ramon inside to help diagnose the issue
22:10when i flush you see anything happen
22:12no i didn't even get like a bubble or a gargle none of that i didn't hear nothing
22:16that's why i was like let me get your eye on it too
22:18if the guys fail to drain the sewage from miss horton's basement
22:21it could result in a biohazardous situation that could force her to have to evacuate her home
22:27i know i'm not buggy i know i'm a little stumped right now
22:41in cleveland field tech josh jeffy leads a crew from the northeast ohio sewer district
22:50a lot of mud
22:51it's not much
22:57anything that went into any of these patch bases or any of these toilets in here in this vicinity is
23:03on him right now
23:11on the outskirts of town the team faces a major blockage
23:17it's a massive amount of grit and debris that settled along the sewer floor
23:22and hardened into rock solid slabs
23:26these slabs have fallen off a larger formation
23:29a mega clog further down the line
23:32the team must find the buildup and break it apart before it leads to catastrophic flooding throughout the city
23:38the team starts in one of the oldest tunnels in cleveland josh's cohort todd is the team's resident sewer historian
23:48in 1892 cleveland built the sewer for poo
23:51the slabs aren't the only obstacle the team faces today a part of the tunnel is eroding to reach the
23:58eroded part of the tunnel
23:59todd and josh will need to wade through 50 yards of toxic sewer water
24:06but before they enter they need to ensure the water isn't so deep that it rises above their safety equipment
24:13what i do is i'm gonna stick it in and pull it out
24:16all right
24:17you have to constantly be looking for hazards while you're out there
24:21whether it's gases in the sewer falling down a hole in the sewer
24:26getting swept away by high flow
24:30with all those risks is it worth it
24:32oh definitely
24:33the experience just working in the sewer the equipment and stuff that i run
24:37i just look forward to doing that kind of stuff
24:39we use a pole to feel our way through because the sewers are old
24:43they get deteriorated so you could have a void in there
24:46it could be two inches deep could be six feet deep we don't know
24:56this is something here that we would probably take care of in the future here
25:01the team's investigation reveals a serious structural issue
25:05what happens is that flow will build up now and start turbulating in there
25:09and kind of erodes that away
25:11so we'll have to come in and fill that in with brick and concrete
25:14it'll start popping those bricks out all the way down if that gets too high
25:19the erosion of this section doesn't affect just this area
25:23little grit build up here
25:26it's also the source of the grit that formed the hardened slabs further along the sewer line
25:32as the old concrete and rock erodes away from the structure
25:36it mixes with fats and other debris
25:38forming giant build-ups that threaten to overwhelm the system
25:42they press on to find the source of the problem
25:45so this is the next section to that
25:48down there there should be i think there's another access manhole down there
25:55my mom always told me there's light at the end of the tunnel
26:07now weighed down with 90 extra pounds to help him battle the current
26:11dirty water don has finally found the blockage
26:14that is wreaking havoc on belleville new jersey's sewer system
26:18but when he removes it
26:21it unleashes a rush of water knocking don off balance
26:26down the sideways
26:28but almost as fast as it started
26:30the current calms down and don's back on his feet
26:37don what's the blockage
26:38don what's the blockage
26:40i got branches wrapped up in a pump
26:46i feel the pressure out of the pipe now
26:48you got a lot more water flow
26:50you feel a lot more flow
26:55how's your mobility
26:57not bad
26:59i mean it's verified that i got pushed out of the pipe
27:02uh...
27:04straightened out of the dive rig
27:10by adding tension to the umbilical
27:12don will be in greater control of his footing
27:14tell me when
27:15tell you when buddy
27:21but despite the tense umbilical
27:23the extra weight begins to overwhelm don
27:37it's not long
27:38back in miss horton's flooded basement
27:40Ramon's pulling out all the stops
27:43he's flushed the pipes
27:44but raw sewage is still backing up into the basement
27:48We usually break the backup and all the water runs out.
27:52We flushed two, three times.
27:54The water did not relieve itself from the basement.
27:58It's time for Ramon to break out the big guns.
28:01We're going to set up the camera and get in our investigation just to rule out any sewer issues on
28:06our end.
28:08His next move is to get a look inside the pipes.
28:12Right now we're setting up the camera so we can get a quick view.
28:19One of us, maybe we can look into our lateral because we can actually turn the camera.
28:25It tilts back and forth.
28:27This remote control camera can roll along the sewer floor and give a rat's eye view of any problems that
28:33might be causing the basement to flood.
28:35On the camera we have about like 1,200 feet of cable to assess the lines and to see any
28:40underground infrastructure cave-ins,
28:42anything that's going on down there, blue conditions.
28:44This is how we know what we have to do as far as our workbooks.
28:48This section of pipe was lined with a rubber sleeve, which should keep the sewage from leaking out.
28:53Yeah, yeah.
28:54Like patches and stuff like that.
28:57Yeah, you see the whole top of the pipe?
28:58That's called bad lining right there.
29:01Like that's lining failure.
29:02That's bad.
29:02That's not good.
29:04Terrible.
29:05But the damage could mean something is forcing its way in.
29:08And if that damage has reached the foundation of the house, Ms. Horton's home could soon be condemned.
29:26Dirty water Don has cleared the obstruction, but the extra weight he's wearing is dragging him down.
29:34Hang in there, Don.
29:40Do you hear me?
29:45Oh, that's awesome.
29:47Take a strain out of my dive rig.
29:49Take a strain out of my dive rig.
29:51Strain out of the dive rig.
29:53Tell me when.
29:55Say when, buddy.
30:00That's good.
30:01Stop.
30:02Stop.
30:03With the blockage cleared, Don muscles his way back up to the manhole, where the team assists his ascent.
30:09Pull up on him easy.
30:12Oxygen's 120.
30:13How's your speed?
30:14Roger.
30:15Good.
30:15Good.
30:15Good.
30:17Exiting the manhole with extra weight and a giant tarp is a risky proposition.
30:23If Don slips and falls, he could suffer catastrophic injury.
30:28Put that bench under him.
30:32Right.
30:33Unhook him.
30:34I'm done, I'm done.
30:35We are trying.
30:38Don's covered in bacteria.
30:41As soon as he's above ground, his suit must be sprayed with hydrogen peroxide to disinfect it.
30:47You got the water and stuff over there?
30:49Then, he's doused with soap and thoroughly scrubbed.
30:53I don't like this part.
30:56We came, we saw, we conquered.
30:57This part.
31:00So because of the type of material it is, water doesn't pass through it relatively easily.
31:05And although the current is strong, and it's still got on it, the current is strong, when
31:10you wrap up in branches, it makes a perfect dam.
31:12And that tumbleweed makes a clock.
31:14On a scale of 1 to 10, I think today's job would have been an 11.
31:17Reason is, to get into pipe 71, I had to get past human to get in there.
31:22Because remember, if a clog happens, water still passes.
31:27Solids are the ones that get left behind.
31:29So we had to navigate through that.
31:30And we don't have eyes down there, so you feel your way through that.
31:34You move the debris, and that's when I found our tarp.
31:37But imagine just going through a wall of s**t to get to that.
31:40One of today's hurdles in this particular manhole was the current and the speed of the water.
31:44So when I got to the bottom, that's where the weight really came into play.
31:47We didn't anticipate the water speed, because we didn't anticipate the rainfall we had yesterday.
31:52And because of that rainfall, it really added to this problem today.
31:56You have overflow and some mixtures between shelf water, rain water, and municipality water.
32:03And there's all kinds of things overlap.
32:05Not to mention, you've got sewer systems with open grates and construction crews and just fuel that littering.
32:11It finds its way down there.
32:13Especially when you've got current running this fast, something like this can move 30 miles underground and you wouldn't even
32:19know it.
32:20It just flows.
32:22And so, with the hose reeled in, the oxygen tanks wheeled away, and the last strands of toilet paper peeling
32:29off the ladder,
32:30Dirty Water Don completes another successful dive.
32:34It was disgusting.
32:35It's just the nature of the industry.
32:37Holy s**t.
32:38No, it's regular s**t.
32:40You know, it's a paycheck, but you've got to have some respect in what you love and what you do
32:44here.
32:45Otherwise, you can't do this every day.
32:46And, you know, we laugh, we have fun, but we do this stuff so everyday life can go on.
32:52We do this so your own lives can continue when you flush your toilets.
33:11In Mount Vernon, the team's sewer camera discovers a problem.
33:15If they got a water main break, that's just adding more pressure to the top of the pipe because now
33:20it's trying to find its way in.
33:21This damaged lining means something's trying to force its way into the pipe.
33:26Sewer and water lines are usually kept at least 10 feet apart, but if one of them breaks, it can
33:32infiltrate the other.
33:34In this case, water could be pushing sewage back up the pipe and into Ms. Horton's basement.
33:39To get to the bottom of the problem, Ramon has enlisted help from the water department, which means their buddy
33:46Joe is here to help.
33:48If we can't get to the basement, we'll be able to sound the line on here.
33:52If there was a leak on the line, you'll hear water running.
33:55Ramon and the boys can't always get their eyes on every problem.
33:58In instances such as these, they like to get creative and use other senses.
34:04Joe uses an electronic listening device called a sonoscope leak detector.
34:09It monitors the flow of water in nearby pipes, and any disruption means there's a leak.
34:15It's almost like something pressurized, put a hole in it like a balloon.
34:20That's the noise you're going to hear.
34:22At this point, we ain't hearing anything.
34:24That means that it's a negative here.
34:26There's no leak that's causing the problem.
34:29This is a straight up sewer backup.
34:33Undeterred, Ramon heads outside in search of possible causes of the blockage.
34:37I'm going to open the door back here and let some of this water out.
34:42Mine's stuck on the crate here.
34:44We can get some type of door rack.
34:50There's a limited number of causes to a problem like this.
34:53And now Ramon thinks he might know what's going on.
34:58Holy moly.
35:00I hear something else running back there.
35:02It could be her pump recirculating.
35:04It's circulating the water.
35:04I mean, let me listen to it.
35:07Yeah, you can hear it right from the crate.
35:08What's up?
35:10You hear it?
35:12Yeah, no, it might be her pump.
35:14It sounds like it could be her pump recirculating.
35:16It may be clogged when her water's not going out.
35:20And that's what brought the water up in the first place.
35:22Copy, copy.
35:23All the signs point to a pump failing to remove waste water from the house.
35:28If you went down there and shut the electricity up, I guarantee that noise goes away.
35:32All that s***, you got some type of pump in the basement.
35:36If I can use your boots, I'll go in there and see if I can find the pump.
35:38You can think of that.
35:42We're going to hopefully pull the plug on a sub pump.
35:46And it should stop recirculating.
35:48We're going to hope.
36:05So it wasn't water.
36:07It wasn't sewer.
36:09It's actually her problem.
36:11She had a pump on and it's just recirculating the water.
36:14It's not getting out to the street at all.
36:16The sump pump should be pumping the sewage out through a separate pipe.
36:21But that pipe's blocked.
36:23So the sewage is being pumped back up the drain and into the basement.
36:28As soon as she calls a plumber, they'll sneak it.
36:32And everything will just go right to the to the main line.
36:37Problem solved.
36:38Our job is done here.
36:40I appreciate you all the time.
36:41Thank you, fellas.
36:43Thank you, brother.
36:44All the time.
36:44Thank you, my friend.
36:45You've been such a godsend for me this morning that I gave you something to do this morning.
36:52You should be thankful to me.
36:53Otherwise, you would have been bored.
37:02The Cleveland crew has located a massive clog made from hardened concrete mix and sediment.
37:08The area is now at risk of a significant flood.
37:12I think it's supposed to snow and rain tomorrow.
37:14When that dumps in, you're not going to be able to actually see the channels like you could today.
37:18You're going to open them and see water.
37:20Just rolling.
37:21Rolling water.
37:22And that's not...
37:22You can't do nothing with that.
37:24You can't fight the water.
37:25It's going to get where it wants to get.
37:26So, we've got to get it while we can.
37:28First, the team must take off the layer of filth that's settled on top of the blockage.
37:37There it is.
37:39There's the money shot right there.
37:43No good?
37:44All right.
37:46It's unidentifiable.
37:47But if I had to take a guess, hair pieces, condoms, toilet paper, it could be anything.
37:54It's just a mess.
37:56And this is the stuff that clogs our pumps.
37:58And that's a whole other issue.
37:59So, this is what we want to clear out of the sewer for sure.
38:03Clumps of hair.
38:04We get this all the time.
38:06That's what gets tangled up in our float line there a lot.
38:09So, it's hard to get off.
38:11It takes a long time to get off.
38:12And, you know, you've got to either cut it or you've just got to keep pulling that until it finally
38:18eventually comes off.
38:19The next layer of debris is removed with this.
38:22It's called the bucketing machine.
38:24And it's been performing the grunt work of sewer cleaning since the 1940s.
38:29The bucketing machine is a primitive system, but it works really well.
38:32Like these chunks that we're going to be pulling up, we can actually just scoop it or bring it back
38:37to where we can remove it physically.
38:39Some guys like it.
38:40Some guys don't.
38:41So, but I myself am older here, veteran with it.
38:45So, I like it.
38:47It's a simple machine.
38:49First, the crew runs a steel line between two manholes.
38:53Then they attach a bucket, which drags along the bottom of the sewer to scoop up debris.
38:59But the old boy can be a little unstable on his feet.
39:06We just had a slight miss out.
39:09The bucketing machine kind of fell off to its price.
39:12Now we've got to readjust everything and put it back more securely this time.
39:17We've got the collective minds that we can work together and get it done right.
39:20Fingers crossed.
39:22Yeah, just guide that on that roller for me.
39:34Hey, slow it down.
39:36Slow it down.
39:38The bucketing machine does a good job of removing the surface debris.
39:42But that's still just the tip of a very dark and very dirty iceberg.
39:47Deeper down, the blockage has solidified and is up to eight inches thick.
39:53There's a huge clump of that hardened stuff that the bucket won't be able to carry up.
39:57So, we've got to go down and break it up and take it up by hand.
40:03Welcome to Tools of the S*** Trade with Dirty Water Don.
40:07All right.
40:07So, this is your Kirby Morgan 37 dive helmet.
40:12You have your Snoopy.
40:13And underneath your Snoopy, this is just a cushioning.
40:16It also fills in a lot of the void in the helmet to get a buildup of carbon dioxide.
40:22Now, you have your communication wire coming in.
40:25And then from there, it goes into a microphone.
40:28Now, all of these can become microphones.
40:31So, you can hear out of your mouthpiece and your two ears.
40:33And you can talk out of all three.
40:35They're dual purpose.
40:35So, in case anything fails, there's always a contingency.
40:38There's always a backup.
40:39So, you turn your comms box on here.
40:41You have your power supply and your speaker.
40:43That power is this.
40:44Right here, your microphone.
40:45Give it a tap.
40:46You hear it on that Tom's box.
40:47It all becomes comms.
40:49It all becomes a microphone.
40:51So, if this fails or any of them fail, there's still backups.
40:54There's always a contingency in diving.
40:55There's always a backup plan.
40:57Never have faith that one thing will work 100%.
41:00And this has been another edition of Tools of the Trade with Dirty Water Done.
41:11The weather plays a big part, especially at this time of year, of what kind of work we're going to
41:15be doing.
41:15And in this specific job, we had a window of a few days where we can get in there and
41:20get some work done.
41:21Now, for a section like this sectional pipe, there's a lot of that hardened debris in there to the point
41:27where the bucket just will not come up anymore.
41:29We have some chunks down there that are three feet long.
41:31So, that's the point where we got to strap the boots up, put the suit on, check for gas levels
41:37in that sewer, go down and basically break the stuff up by hand, by spud bar, by hammer.
41:44Whatever method possible to get that large chunks of debris out of the sewer, we will.
41:50Josh is headed 10 feet underground to squat in 36 inches of fast-flowing human waste, all in an effort
41:57to break up a hard rock blockage that, if not cleared soon, could result in catastrophic flooding throughout the city.
42:26You're trying any way possible to get this debris out.
42:29Lack of space is a definite problem.
42:31We have some chunks down there that are three feet long.
42:34We got to lift those up, break them on the roller.
42:36Hey, guys.
42:37What?
42:38We can get anything on the backside of that roller.
42:40Get that, please.
42:41Yeah, well.
42:42In these sewers, there's all kind of hidden dangers.
42:45I don't think people realize how much of a force water really is.
42:49And then when it's in a more of a confined space, the velocity turns up higher.
42:57Look, you're coming down.
43:00Okay.
43:01Okay.
43:23It's a nasty job, but Josh won't give up until he gets rid of the entire clog.
43:31That's it.
43:32We got it.
43:33I'm coming up.
43:39There he is.
43:40There you can hear him.
43:42Okay, you're off.
43:43You're free.
43:43You're free.
43:44Now, this is close to ****.
43:49Not actually a lot of people, I don't think, would be willing to do what we're doing.
43:53Working in the sewers, a lot of people that I know are like, yeah, that's kind of gross.
43:57And yes, there's some parts where it's gross, but a lot of the infrastructure is getting older.
44:01So it's going to have to be maintained.
44:02It's going to have to be improved.
44:04And there's going to have to be people that are going to be maintaining.
44:07We're just out there driving around, inspecting sewers, making sure there's no blocks.
44:11Doing what we have to do.
44:11Doing what we have to do.
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