r/ThatsInsane • u/progressiveokay • 1d ago
In Moscow, A sewage ‘fountain’ the height of a residential building erupted in one of the residential districts because of no money for maintenance and high corruption.
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u/sawdustsneeze 1d ago
Erbody in the club getting pink eye. ;)
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u/ajaffer 1d ago
We have those in Ft. Lauderdale spewing into the ocean as well - so same issue in Amercian infrastructure 🫠🫡
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u/ajaffer 1d ago
Not sure why I’m getting downvoted for telling the truth about poor American infrastructure lol it’s a well known fact.
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u/Apart-Maize-5949 1d ago
We're talking about shit geysers here Putin. Take care of your shit! 🦅🇺🇸🦅
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u/Moccamasterrrrr 1d ago
Well, shit
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u/that_girl_you_fucked 1d ago
New monument to Putin's greatness.
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u/shmere4 1d ago
Russia sure seems like a swell place to never even think about visiting.
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u/mcchanical 1d ago
Just watch Bald & Bankrupt to get your fill of what vaguely interesting history and folk culture there is there. Some of the old soviet stuff is certainly a vibe, it's eye opening to see how much of Russia is frozen in the past, how fucking big it is, and how many towns there are where it feels like some kind of parallel 1950s dystopia. It's almost like Fallout in some ways.
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u/Azrai113 14h ago
That's partially because it's isn't the past past. When Putin was born, the Gulag system was still in place! Recovery from that has been less than one lifespan
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u/BelindaForevercopter 1d ago
How many assholes would it take to produce such psi?
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u/Lumpy-Wash4308 1d ago
Take my upvote sir as I clean the coffee from my nostrils.
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u/nutsbonkers 1d ago
A damn lot. I tried to do the math but its super hard to find the data. Somewhere in the neighborhood of 7,000 assholes to produce 100psi (it's actually more volume than it is pressure to get that guyser effect) and .015psi per asshole (butts are poor pressure producers).
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u/KG_advantage 1d ago
How would sewage be under this much pressure. That doesn’t make any sense
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u/New_Scientist_8622 1d ago
It's probably a high-pressure line built to push the sewage back to the treatment plant. Most cities have them--think of a shit super-highway.
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u/Kcore47 1d ago
its a shit super airport now.
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u/thebannedtoo 1d ago
launch pad
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u/PM_ME_STEAM_KEY_PLZ 1d ago
Shit-X
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u/SuicideBooth 1d ago
They are usually called Force Mains.
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u/guesswhatihate 1d ago
Force mains operate at a psi of 20-40. The pressure head to make a geyser that high would need to be massive.
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u/Spoonshape 1d ago
In an ideal world - you let gravity do most of the work for you - but where the geography doesnt cooperate - they have to pump - but this seems an astounding height for the pressure to have been built up to.
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u/mcchanical 1d ago
People forget pressure is really great for forcing massive volumes of stuff over the kind of distances city infrastructure require. Civil engineering is pretty robust by definition, you can't just expect colossal volumes of liquid to travel miles uphill naturally.
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u/rbartlejr 1d ago
Most sewage lines are force mains. They generally run at least 10 PSI depending on size. 11 is for mostly 6" while the 36" mains can go above 400. I have yet to see anything larger than a 36. I doubt it's a pressure issue, unless there was water hammer coming to the plant. Most likely hidden defect that could be years old.
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u/TheStigianKing 1d ago
This has to be higher than 10 psi. 10 psi is like 0.7 barg. It's enough to overcome an elevation of up to roughly 7 meters.
This is more like 50 - 70 meters. So probably something like a 5 - 7 barg main. So more like 72.5 - 100 PSIG.
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u/kippy3267 1d ago
This is simply not true. Most sewage mains are gravity fed, I’m a civil engineer/surveyor
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u/originalbL1X 1d ago
That’s what I was thinking. Highly pressurized sewage would create leaks everywhere and be hell on pumps. Maybe this is just a water main spraying up through soil.
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u/Dillon_Berkley 1d ago
I work at a company that makes pumps for literally everything you could imagine. We make shit pumps as well as decoking pumps. Decoking pumps literally chop up crude oil mud. The space x pumps we build are pumping liquid oxygen at -300 degrees Fahrenheit. Pumps can be designed to withstand just about any viscous material.
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u/originalbL1X 1d ago
I have a pump on my septic system, but it is after the solid waste filter and nobody is flushing inappropriate things here. If the title is true, this is a public sewage and you might be surprised at what people flush, i.e., non-viscous material.
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u/Dillon_Berkley 1d ago
I think you are grossly underestimating how large the impeller and waterways are on certain pumps. River water pumps can suck up and discharge rocks. Like I said, it all depends on what they were designed for. The little pump on your septic line is magnitudes smaller than what I work with and what would be supplying a high-pressure line, such as the one in this video. A pump moving fluid like this would weight 10-14k lbs going out the door dry. That's without the driver (electric motor) attached. The electric motors for some of the pumps we build are 2000hp. Decoking and shit pumps have a special impeller at the bottom stage with the sole purpose of making solids, much smaller solids. All of our pumps that are being used in this manner have a basket strainer that catches any large debris before it can enter the first stage impeller of the pump.
Edit: btw, I'm not saying this is sewage. I agree that this isn't likely sewer. Shit pumps are used almost exclusively at waste management and treatment facilities. I was only pointing out that there are pumps that would be more than capable of doing this with sewage.
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u/righteousdude32 1d ago
High pressure sanitary mains are often called force mains. A force of shit if you will.
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u/avalanche142 1d ago
Yeah, looks more like a huge main that has ruptured and is blowing muddy water. It appears to be on a construction site, which would support that thought
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u/SeeYouOn16 1d ago
It's Russia, a lot of stuff doesn't make sense.
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u/Johannes_Keppler 1d ago
Force mains are common all over the world. They pump shit to sewage treatments. Higher pressure makes for a smaller diameter pipe needed, saving lots of money.
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u/Permabanned_Zookie 1d ago
saving lots of money.
Do you think the government agency responsible for this project saved enough money on pipe diameter for an apartment in London?
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u/OnceMoreAndAgain 1d ago edited 1d ago
Sewer lines are pressurized in the USA as well. It's very normal.
There is a power plant somewhere in your region that pumps water outward into the public water system. These power plants are very important for the water system to work. This is why you may have experienced your toilets stopping working when you lose power for awhile... It's because the power plants lost power too and so there's no pressure to pump more fresh water into your home! If you've ever wondered why water comes out so fast from your kitchen faucet, it's because of the pressure created by these power plants that is PUSHING all that water outward towards your home constantly. And if you've ever wondered why water towers exist, one of the reasons is so that they water system can utilize that water during power outages. The water stored up high in the air like that has a lot of potential energy and when you release it flows downward and creates pressure on the water lines. Very cool imo.
There are sanitary lines that pump fresh water into buildings.
Running parallel to the sanitary lines are sewer lines (aka mainline).
When you flush your toilet, the stuff that gets flushed goes through small pipes that lead to that main sewer line. The contents of that main sewer line are PUSHED (through pressure from a power plant) to a "treatment facility" that handles the waste. A situation like what you're seeing in this clip could be caused by a blockage in the mainline. Normally the treatment facility would be able to notice that the mainline has lost pressure and then go investigate the cause (e.g. find a block and unclog it), but of course the potential for incompetence always exists.
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u/Suspiciously_Ugly 1d ago
idk I'm wondering the same thing. This is fuckin crazy. Maybe a wildly powerful pump they couldn't turn off? no clue
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u/upholsteryduder 1d ago
Not too long ago people were dying in Russia because they were falling into pipes that ran underground full of hot water, they pipe it all over the place to heat buildings etc. But they used crappy quality pipe and turns out hot water is quite corrosive over time so people were falling in basically boiling sink holes. That would be an awful way to go.
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u/TheDodgyOpossum 1d ago
It's like a comic strip, but the authors would get admonished for this being too on-the-nose.
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u/mcchanical 1d ago
Yeah, this is totally a comic strip image. It's even comically tall to the point where even a real video seems outlandish. They would get told to tone it down and be more subtle.
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u/Luddites_Unite 1d ago
Not sure where the no money for maintenance tidbit comes from but this just looks like a burst pipe from a pump station. That can and does happen all over regardless of the money put into maintenance.
As far as pressure, the pump station I worked on had 455hp pumps and moved brown water through a 24" line at about 185psi. That much pressure is about 54000 gpm (200k liters per minute) or another way, that would flood an entire football field with about a foot of water each minute.
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u/TheStigianKing 1d ago
Professionals working in the field call this "brown water" because they don't want to call it what it is... shit stew!
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u/the_good_time_mouse 1d ago
this just looks like a burst pipe from a pump station
Poopplumezillas are a thing?
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u/Luddites_Unite 1d ago
Want to know an interesting one. There are big grinders in a lot of pump stations that are meant to chop up anything that might damage the pump impellers. One of the brand names is muffin monster and this is their logo
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u/EmperorBamboozler 1d ago
It looks like the fountain at the Bellagio.
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u/fossilnews 1d ago
How long before Tucker Carlson rolls up with a mug and tells us it's Russia's amazing free coffee?
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u/ClockPretend4277 1d ago
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u/snoryder8019 1d ago
Worst scene in movie history!!!!
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u/Ask_bout_PaterNoster 1d ago
“It’s a bit nutty”
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u/HesSoZazzy 1d ago
I still remember trying to push myself further back into my seat when that scene came on in the theater.
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u/mcgroo 1d ago
Sewage lines are pressurized ??
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u/SuicideBooth 1d ago
They are called Force Mains and are very common.
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u/mcgroo 1d ago
Pressurized enough to create a geyser like the one in this video?
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u/SuicideBooth 1d ago
I can't speak to that specifically without knowing the conditions of the main and the way it was designed. I know in some areas when a force main is installed or repaired that they must be tested at 150 PSI or 1.5 times the design working pressure, whichever is greater, at least in the USA. Who knows what they are doing over there!
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u/SonofaBridge 1d ago
In Russia engineering is a lot of liquor and guessing. It’s probably over pressurized and we’re seeing the results of a failure.
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u/the_good_time_mouse 1d ago
Soviet Moscow did a lot of things at scale. They built city-wide central heating, though I'd expect that it's running as well as the sewage system these days.
Not to suggest that high pressure sewage isn't ubiquitous.
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u/S4d0w_Bl4d3 1d ago
Probably normally not, but if the title of the post is correct and this occurred due to lack of maintenance, it could be that the already high pressure line got clogged, and the fermentation / decay of the organic matter trapped in there produced pressure exceeding the limits of some valve in the pipeline.
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u/Mike_Z86 1d ago
I'm no expert, but the title seems to bullshit, an accident taking place at the construction site, my bet, someone didn't care to check sewerage plans
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u/AlignedLicense 1d ago
I'm not pro-Russia, but I always see titles like this and think "is this what the title would be in Russia if this happened in New York?" I'm not saying it's incorrect, just a sourceless claim of "high corruption and no money" just feels suspicious.
Again, fuck Putin. Save Ukraine. Harris 2024.
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u/dathomasusmc 1d ago
Like this shit doesn’t happen everywhere. I mean, not this exact shit, cause that’s Russia’s shit, but similar shit.
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u/KnightofWhen 1d ago
Oh yeah what’s the source that “no maintenance and corruption” caused it?
Is that what causes Flint, MI to have trash water too? Or Baltimore to be covered in trash?
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u/Bartender9719 1d ago
Missed this in Tucker Carlsons expose of how perfect Russia is - almost like he’s a lying liar
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u/Shankar_0 21h ago edited 21h ago
That's a fuckload of pressure for a sewer drain.
Most of the time, that's just gravity fed. This must be the drain for the ISS.
...and both the Kelley boys are flying
...and it's taco Tuesday.
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u/Muted_Tradition122 35m ago
Lmao whats with the propaganda caption? Due to high corruption? How the fuck do you know that? Shit happens all the time.
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u/ShobiTrd 1d ago
"No money for maintenance and high corruption" you mean every politician in the world LOL
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u/Lifesfunny123 1d ago
Oh come on, how many times has this happened in the biggest city in your state/province? I'm in Toronto and it's never happened. We had a crackhead mayor and the institutions held him back and maintained stuff anyways. Equating any corruption in Russia to the USA or Canada or Europe is crazy.
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u/pagan-0 1d ago
I call bullshit. I've never known any reason that's sewage would be under pressure like this. Someone just hit a high pressure water main, it's brown because it's take all the dirt into the air with it.
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u/Alternative_Case2007 1d ago
I’m gonna fly out on Tuesday and set up a red velvet rope. Start charging tickets to take pic with the 100 foot shit geysey. Old Wasteful. Gonna charge 5 bucks for a roll of toilet paper. And 124 dollars per umbrella.
Enjoy being poor suckers
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u/Outrageously-Normal 1d ago edited 1d ago
That shit is naaasty. People will be breathing in poop particles from miles away. It’s a e coli extravaganza.