Posted on 10/17/2018 6:33:25 PM PDT by RightGeek
AMES ISLAND, S.C. (WCBD) - Workers at the Charleston Water System Plum Island Facility had their hands full over the weekend when the system was clogged by a massive amount of wipes.
"It took a few days for us to get divers in here to actually dive down about 80 feet into raw sewage with their bare hands and feel around in total darkness," said Mike Saia, Communications Manager, Charleston Water System.
Those divers found mounds and mounds of flushed wipes. They clogged the system and caused a huge backup. While the system is clear now, there are still wipes around the facility from the overflow.
"They might do a lot of damage inside your home to your plumbing. They definitely do a lot of damage when they make their way through our infrastructure," said Saia.
When a wipe disappears down a toilet, so does your money. Maintenance is tied into your water rate and it costs a lot to clean messes like this.
One of the divers says going down into the wells is a big task.
"When you get down to the bottom, you can't see anything, everything is done by feel," said diver John Lares.
It's a lot of trouble that can be prevented by just throwing your wipes away.
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aww no, the left would say the wipe is Holy and interpret the markings like some hoodoo bs dance for the moon
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
Using your logic, my 1966 Pontiac Bonneville had bad system design because GM left out a USB port. That is laughable “logic.”
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.
If you were renting the car every month like you pay for sewerage, you would expect it to have a USB port.
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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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.
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