It is a shocker when you see the low house in a hilly neighborhood and it is the house that everyone else’s sewer is filling up because the stoppage is just in front of it.
Imagine sewage overflowing every floor in the house and several inches deep throughout the home as it flows out of the doorways
It is a shocker when you see the low house in a hilly neighborhood...
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Here’s a story that is similar but a different scenario....
I have friend who bought a new house somewhere in Westport, Connecticut about 10 or 15 years ago. As I recall, the subdivision was about 500 homes. Since the whole area was quite low, all the homeowners had to have sewage lift pump installed. A year or so after he moved in, there was an electrical power outage..... a serious one that knocked the system off for a day or so. During that time of course, water lines still were pressurized, people still flushed their toilets, had showers etc... I suppose until they got an alarm that their sewage sumps were full (or worse if they didn’t have an alarm).
Well.... at some point the power came on and since basically every house in the neighborhood had a full sewage sump by this point, they all came on at the same time. This of course caused the pressure in the sewer line to skyrocket and that high pressure went right back to everyone’s sewage lift pump. Some people were luck but my friend was not.... the pressure in the line was so high that it blew the flex connectors right off that connected the piping to the pump. He was out of the country at the time and the first he heard was when he got a call from a neighbor... “I hate to tell you this but there is sewage leaking out your front door.....” Yup. The entire neighborhood had been pumping away and filled his basement right up to the main floor.