Someone's Gotta Do It - In the Sewer

We're starting a new series today where I, Clayton Clark, will take on just about any difficult, ...  More »

We're starting a new series today where I, Clayton Clark, will take on just about any difficult, disgusting, or unflattering task you can think of. Tonight's we go into the depths of the minot sewer system for our first episode of Someone's Gotta Do It. (Clayton Clark, KX News) People don't realize that even today what maintenance goes in to keeping the sewers running. I'm about to go 40 feet below ground in my white tuxedo and the sewer and water department is going to show us how it's done. Couple of times we come to each lift station and take care of these rags because they build up to much. The rags are anything that comes from people's homes or businesses that get flushed or put in a floor drain when they take a shower the water comes here, we get it all and we take care of it. You can just pick that up and twist it sideways like that and just pick her up in there. You might have to bang it, it dropped off. You're a natural. (Clayton Clark, KX News) This is probably the grossest thing I've ever looked at and/or smelled. If you just ate, you should probably look away. and you guys do this twice a week? When you ask kids in grade school what they want to be whewn they grow up I bet not many of them say they want to be a rag scooper. Once you fill the bucket with lard and well...other stuff, it gets carried up by this little puley system. Take her up Brian. IF I stand underneath it I'll get the drops on the head again. And after Brian raises the lard bucket I made for him. It's time to get out the extremely powerful hose to clean off the rest of the rags. You'll notice I'm chewing gum. That's because i've heard it helps keep you from throwing up. Apparantely you have to be extremely careful with the hose and well I wasn't and I ended up almost drowning everybody..That was my fault. I see a candy bar rapper in there I think, a lot of lard, some other sutff I won't define. Smells great. Alright Take her up. The winding stairs to the top were have the battle of this job. I think I saw a scary movie start of like this once. Alright we've got the stuff out of the sewers in our buckets now we have to dump the buckets in to the truck. Man lard is heavy. And for those of you that were wondering yes that is a needle at the top of the lard. Who's hungry? Oh man that is ripe. I want to thank you guys for letting me experience what you do everyday, the guys from the city sewer and water department. I hope you enjoyed taking the day off from the lard and the smell that i got to enjoy. And if you have any ideas that you would like me to help out with you can email me at CCLARK@KXNET.com Next week I'll be at the Roosevelt Park Zoo mingling with the animals.  « Less