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7. Absolutely true! People are clogging their systems up with wipes and paper towels, too.

Sun Apr 5, 2020, 10:06 AM

Apr 2020

Neither public water systems nor private septic sewage treatment systems are designed to handle anything less soluble than toilet paper.

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