The Sewer Atrium
Many of the marvels of civil engineering to be found in Altdorf inspire awe and wonder, but this is not the case with the
Fleishmark sewer atrium. Nearly everyone deems it an absolute disgrace for its stomach-churning stench and appearance, and
the local grocers and food stalls complain that it affects their trade disastrously on hot days.
In years past, it was customary for the knackers and butchers of Fleishmark to wheel barrows of extraneous waste on to a long pier and dump it in the centre of the Reik. However, folk living downriver, particularly the nobles of the South Bank, complained about the stinking offal floating by their homes. So, the Sewer Atrium was constructed: a vast brick-lined pit into which all the by-products of butchery could be cast, along with used tannery swill, to be carried away beyond the city walls where it is eventually dumped into the Reik well downstream in an area known as the Altdorf Flats.
Some say this is the reason that the Altdorf Flats seem to attract so many trolls and other monstorous beasts who might still find the effluent appetising.
Type
Sewer, section
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