At home, there’s no worse feeling than watching the water in the toilet you just flushed start to rise. A sick feeling fills your stomach as you run to find a plunger.

But when you work at the waste plant itself, you pray for just an overflowing toilet. No, at the plant there are much bigger problems. Just check out this footage at sewage plant when a scum pot valve failed, and pure, raw, unadulterated sewage exploded all over the plant floor. We’re gonna need  more than just a plunger…