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 ...

CARBONDALE, Ill. (KFVS) - Homeowners in Carbondale can get help battling sanitary surcharges when heavy rainfall threatens to cause basement backups. The City of Carbondale’s Utilities Department is ...

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 ...

BEACHWOOD, Ohio -- City Council has unanimously approved legislation that will allow for the installation of backflow preventers at homes that have been plagued by flooding following heavy rains.

Hilliard residents whose basements have been flooded when sanitary sewers became inundated during rainstorms will be considered for a new program that would pay for the installation of a backflow ...

To prevent basement flooding that numerous residents reported during heavy rains this spring, Bexley City Council is considering legislation that would enable residents to request the city install ...

The Basement Backup Protection Program (B2P2) aims to reduce sewer backups in Lansing basements by assisting with some of the costs to mitigate or prevent the problem. Now city officials say they have ...

Some South Bend residents along the St. Joe River are dealing with sewage in their basements after Monday night's heavy rains, and they say it's a recurring problem. “Everytime we have a big rainstorm ...

The agency in charge of delivering clean water to New Yorkers forgot to do it for its own employees. A new building at the Hunts Point sewage plant in the Bronx was built seven months ago without a ...

Outside Sarah Ryerson’s Lakewood home, personal belongings destroyed by flooding are piling up. “This area has always had a problem with flooding," she says. "It’s a high water table but this has been ...