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 A nine week battle against the "monster" Whitechapel fatberg has finally come to an end as Thames Water teams manage to unclog 130 tonnes of waste. 
 
 Using sheer brute force and shovels at times, teams worked in cramped and often challenging conditions four metres below the streets of east London to clear the congealed waste, which was made up of oil, wet wipes and other sanitary products. 
 
 The clearing process took longer than first expected due to the damage to the one metre high egg-shaped sewer caused by the fatberg. 
 
 Thames Water waste network manager, Alex Saunders, said: "Our work is finished, and the beast finally defeated after a mammoth effort from the team. 
 
 "It was some of the most gut-wrenching work many would have seen on national television, and one of the reasons why the man-made Whitechapel fatberg captured the world’s imagination." 
 
 "The good news is it has helped Thames Water and other water companies around the world get the message across that cooking fat, oils and grease should never go down the plughole. 
 
 "As you have seen, when combined with wet wipes, sanitary products, underwear, nappies, and anything else that shouldn’t be flushed, we’re faced with having to clear out these giant, rock-hard fatbergs." 
 
 (Image: Thames Water) 
 
 Andy Brierley, director of Lanes Utilities, Thames Water’s wastewater network services maintenance partner, even likened it to a Harry Potter experience. 
 
 He said: "Nailing this fatberg was like battling a giant Harry Potter movie creature beneath the streets of London. 
 
 "Around each sewer corner we discovered a new fatberg challenge. 
 
 "We’re immensely proud of the team effort made to get the job done." 
 
 (Image: Thames Water) 
 
 Every month Thames Water spends around £1 million clearing blockages from its 68,000 mile sewer network. 
 
 Their "Bin it – don’t block it" message encourages people to avoid putting things like cooking fat, oil, food waste, wet wipes and make-up pads down the toilet or drain. 
 
 According to Thames Water, eight times an hour a customer suffers a blockage caused by items being put down the drain or flushed away which shouldn't be. 
 
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 A massive 'fatberg' - made of oil, fat, nappies, wipes, sanitary products and condoms - has been removed from a London sewer. 
 
 It took nine weeks for Thames Water to blast and hack away at the ghastly blockage, which was longer than two football pitches. 
 
 The last stretch needed brute force and shovels to dismantle the "rock hard" fatberg and it was "gut-wrenching work", said Thames Water's Alex Saunders. 
 
 It formed under the streets of Whitechapel, east London, damaging the one-metre-wide sewer as it grew. 
 
 Eight people used high-powered jet hoses to break up the 250m fatberg before sucking it out of the sewer and into tankers. 
 
 Image: Fatberg fighters: Two workers celebrate their victory. Pic: Thames Water 
 
 "Our work is finished, and the beast finally defeated after a mammoth effort from the team," said Mr Saunders. 
 
 The message is 'Bin it - don't block it', and Thames Water is reminding people that "poo, pee and toilet paper are the only things that should ever be flushed down the toilet". 
 
 Cooking fat, oil and grease should also not be poured down the plughole. 
 
 Instead, water companies recommend using something like an old jam jar or butter tub to collect it when cooled, before emptying it into the rubbish. 
 
 In September the Museum of London said it would like to display part of the fatberg because it "would raise questions about how we live today and also inspire our visitors to consider solutions to the problems of growing metropolises".
– It was longer than two football fields, weighed as much as nearly a dozen double-decker buses, and took nine weeks to annihilate—but the London fatberg is officially no more. "Our work is finished, and the beast finally defeated after a mammoth effort from the team," says Alex Saunders of the Thames Water utility, per Sky News. The congealed blob made of fat, oil, wet wipes, feminine hygiene products, and even condoms had taken over a sewer in the eastern part of the city, wreaking havoc on the sewer itself as it ballooned. It took what Saunders calls the "gut-wrenching work" of eight people with powerful jet hoses to blast the "rock-hard" fatberg out of existence (the remnants were vacuumed up and transported away). "Nailing this fatberg was like battling a giant Harry Potter movie creature beneath the streets of London," the head of a partner wastewater utility tells Get West London. Thames Water is running a "Bin it, don't block it" campaign to get people to quit flushing anything and everything down the toilet, the Evening Standard reports. The utility estimates it spends $1.3 million a month unclogging blockages throughout its sewer network, which runs close to 70,000 miles. The fatberg is gone but won't be forgotten: The remains of the gross glob will be turned into enough biodiesel to fuel one Routemaster double-decker bus for a year. And the Museum of London, which had previously expressed interest in acquiring part of the fatberg, put in a bid for it last month, with the museum's director noting it could become "one of the most extraordinary objects" in any London museum. (Here's how Baltimore dealt with its fatberg.)