Budapest Sewers for a Change of Pace!

Sewage is worldwide, and with traveling, especially when all to report from our own home sewer situation has already been reported on for the moment, it is time to expand our sewer horizons to other parts of the world!

The reason I show you the Budapest Opera House to locate us in Budapest, Hungary, instead of pastries or something, or even perhaps the world famous Parliament Building, is because our sewer saga would fit nicely into an operatic setting, you know, lots of angst and drama....just imagine the shrill voices, shrieks and loud protests with discordant violins! But in English, of course. And sewer talk around pastries is not very pleasant, despite where they end up.

I will give you a few examples of manhole covers I have found, but as what lies beneath them, sewage, electrical, cable, other services of an unknown nature, unless you read Hungarian, your guess is as good as mine.

Fortunately, there is an English page for the current sewer system (note, do we Americans respond to courteously to web crawlers from other countries in their native tongues?):

http://www.fcsm.hu/en/services/drainage_of_wastewater_and_rainwater/sewer_network_operation/

When you find yourself in Budapest, you can also think sludge!

Here is a tidy history of the development of sewers in Buda and Pest!
http://v.fcsmzrt.hu/en/company_information/the_history_of_the_sewage_of_budapest/general_sewerage

Here is a tour, "Making a sanitary sewer the first destination on a 5 day road trip was perhaps not the most sensible of decisions."
http://www.thewinch.net/?p=3522

Happy reading!

PS - not sure why some images don't show a thumbnail on this page, but the wireless is a bit buggy on this ship. Click the missing link image to see the larger image, it is there.