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Media captionSouth West Water has urged people 'not to feed the fatberg'
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A 210ft (64m) fatberg is causing some problems in the seaside town of Sidmouth.

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The congealed mass of fat, oil and rubbish - plus other things you definitely shouldn't put down your toilet - has solidified, putting pressure on the sewer system.

It could take a couple of months to clear the blockage, which South West Water has described as a 'monster'.

Here are the answers to some of the questions you've sent in.

How do you remove fatbergs?

With great difficulty and a fair bit of, ahem, elbow grease.

This one could take about eight weeks to remove, it is estimated.

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Teams from South West Water will be using specialist sewer jetting equipment and good old-fashioned manual labour.

It's a case of shovels and pick-axes after that.

Does the fatberg smell? I imagine it does.

Your imagination is correct.

This is a huge congealed mass of fat, rubbish and anything that people flush down the toilet, whether it's meant to be flushed or not.

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The smell is not pleasant, which is why the teams that are sent down to remove it will have to wear full breathing apparatus.

Alex Saunders from Thames Water, which dealt with an even bigger fatberg in 2017, described the smell as 'rotting meat mixed with the odour of a smelly toilet'.

Lovely.

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Could the fatberg be burnt to provide electricity?

The fatberg could yet have a useful purpose.

South West Water said is doesn't want to clog up landfill sites, so will attempt to put the debris to better use.

It will take the remains to be processed at a plant which turns waste into electricity.

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So you could be using the power from the fatberg to fry your chips in the future.

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Take a look at how one company uses fat from the sewers to make biodiesel: