When I was paging through the newspaper this morning, I was surprised and pleased to see a half-page story about the ongoing battle the wastewater industry is waging over so-called “flushable wipes.’’It explained how a New York State municipality – so plagued with clogs of wipes slowing flow in pipes and damaging pumps – decided to follow the waste stream its the source. Using basket strainers at sewer inlet pipes in the most problematic areas, officials traced the lumps of non-degrading wipes to specific residences, and then started a campaign to convince the homeowners to stop using them.“We could walk
