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When plumber Rex Kinney gets a call about wet wipes, he knows the job is going to take a while.
Kinney, a master plumber with Jersey Plumbing Service in Basking Ridge, New Jersey, has spent countless hours dredging up wet wipes from blocked sewers. He and his crew often spend three or four hours snaking one sewer, using a cable to drag up soggy clumps of wipes, pulling the wipes off the end and then sticking the cable back down into the muck.
“It s a fair amount of work and it s not too pretty looking,” Kinney told TODAY.