“This,” says Fiona Copeman, the hub manager of the Malabar wastewater treatment plant, “is what you would call our four-bus area.” Copeland is gesturing to a model of the plant on a table inside the facility itself. She’s referring to a 300 cubic metre underground chamber that houses, as Guardian Australia revealed in January, a “fatberg the size of four buses that likely birthed poo balls that closed Sydney beaches”. Thirty minutes later, Copeland takes us down a concrete tunnel to a rusty metal door in waist-high water. Beyond this so-called bulkhead door lies the fatberg in an “inaccessible dead
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