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Flushed wipes cause Charleston Water System backup
News 2 (Charleston SC) ^ | 10/17/2018 | Natalie Price

Posted on 10/17/2018 6:33:25 PM PDT by RightGeek

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To: Rebelbase

aww no, the left would say the wipe is Holy and interpret the markings like some hoodoo bs dance for the moon


81 posted on 10/18/2018 5:45:05 AM PDT by aces
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To: Clean_Sweep

Many years ago I was involved in developing equipment used by the epa to detect contamination, we went to the pier and tested the water, the nitrates and nitrites were through the roof, traced the water flow back to a new sewage treatment plant which crossed the pipes and was dumping sewage in the water system..how subtle


82 posted on 10/18/2018 5:48:11 AM PDT by aces
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To: anton

Using your logic, my 1966 Pontiac Bonneville had bad system design because GM left out a USB port. That is laughable “logic.”


83 posted on 10/18/2018 6:22:52 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Mears

600 dollars sounds about right for the job, more importantly did the plumber find the source of the water.
Was it a wast water or potable water leak, was it just ground water intrusion from saturated ground outside.
Those are the things the homeowner NEEDS to know.


84 posted on 10/18/2018 11:05:22 AM PDT by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

If you were renting the car every month like you pay for sewerage, you would expect it to have a USB port.


85 posted on 10/18/2018 1:44:11 PM PDT by anton
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To: 5th MEB

It was steady,unreleneting rain in an area with a high water table-——practically everyone in town was calling the fire department and public works——she couldn’t even reach them herself.

Money well spent——it was almost up to her 1st floor.

(The guy she had bought it from died on 9-11——he was on one of the Boston flights.)

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86 posted on 10/18/2018 4:05:17 PM PDT by Mears
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To: Mears

It’s probably a poured in place or concrete block basement, that’s going to be expensive to fix. Depending on the age of the house, the basement walls and floor may have had exterior waterproofing installed or not.
Probably not.
Improving the surface drainage away from the house outside might help the problem but wont really fix it.
One solution to get rid of the water is to install a sump and sump pump with a float switch in the basement floor and slope the rest of the floor towards the sump about 1/4” in 10’ (that’s 1/4 inch of slope per 10 linear feet).
Make sure to pipe the effluent away from the house to a down hill gradient.
DO NOT PIPE IT INTO THE HOME SEWER LINE, THAT’S ILLEGAL IN MOST STATES, for very good reasons.
Sump and sump pump is probably the most cost effective solution to this problem.
Have your Daughter contact a REPUTABLE plumber in the area (a lot of them are crooks) and get proposals from at least 3 different companies (then check references).
Don’t know where you all live, but out here I could do the job for about 3 to 4 K depending on the home construction and distance to curb and gutter or a decent down slope on the property.
That would be all labor and materials plus electrical for the pump.


87 posted on 10/18/2018 7:41:36 PM PDT by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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