If you're preparing to become a homeowner for the first time, you have a lot on your plate. You want to educate yourself about the process and about various operational systems inside your home, ...

Backflow valves are 85% effective in eliminating sewer backup, according to Galen Heinrichs, stormwater utility manager with the City of Saskatoon. Moreover, in that 15% of instances in which a home ...

COVINGTON, KY (WKRC)- Parts of Covington flooded during an extremely heavy rainfall last June. That caused basements to fill with sewage, damaging thousands of dollars' worth of valuables. Brian ...

I have a shower drain in a basement apartment. Recently, the sewer backed up and sewage water entered the apartment through the shower drain. Is it possible to install some sort of a check valve in ...

Libertyville residents have until Oct. 31 to apply for a sanitary sewer grant that would offset some of the cost of installing backup prevention equipment. Village trustees Tuesday night approved both ...

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Upper Arlington homeowners whose residences experience sewer backups because of heavy rainfall may be able to recoup a portion of the costs to install preventive equipment under a new city program.

A sewer problem in Muirfield Village could be wrapped up following action by Dublin City Council members last week. Eight homes on Dumfries Court East in Muirfield Village were affected by a sewer ...

Last week's storm-induced floods are raising a stink around Edmonton. Literally. A lot of the city's 100 or so follow-ups on a July 12 deluge were related to sanitary sewer backflow, many in the Mill ...