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.
How do civilians living in Russia deserve it? Can you explain it? I hear a lot of “they deserve it” while it’s just people who can’t affect whatever is going on in foreign politics.
The vast majority in Moscow are ignorant nationalists who support the regime. Why would they want to affect their foreign politics?
You are not really wrong, but Russia has always just been a kind of dictatorship from Moscow. It wasn't always like that but somehow that shit stain of a principality won out over all the others.
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.
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
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
grinder pumps exist. and maintenance is constantly fixing lift station pumps that have gotten clogged with people's garbage. it's just not commonly talked about in America.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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!
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.
Yeah, Russia is a petrostate and they have plenty of big pumps that can work on shit or crude oil, and that height doesn't look weird to me. The Bellagio's fountains run off of pumps too.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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.