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Fixing clogged toilets on Navy aircraft carriers costs $400,000 per ‘flush’

By Emma Hagedoorn
Published March 25, 2020 7:11pm ET
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Fixing clogged toilets on Navy aircraft carriers costs $400,000 per ‘flush’
Unclogging toilets on two Virginia-based Navy aircraft carriers has become a persistent and expensive problem. The brand new sewage systems on the USS Gerald R. Ford and the USS George H.W. Bush get backed up so often that the Navy has to clean periodically with specialized acid flushes that cost $400,000 per treatment, according to […]

Unclogging toilets on two Virginia-based Navy aircraft carriers has become a persistent and expensive problem.

The brand new sewage systems on the USS Gerald R. Ford and the USS George H.W. Bush get backed up so often that the Navy has to clean periodically with specialized acid flushes that cost $400,000 per treatment, according to a Government Accountability Office report.

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