As mentioned last Friday in my "Notes" piece they are currently smoke testing village sewers. It's a project they have been working on to get started for over a year. The main reason for the testing is to locate places that have storm sewers dumping rain water into the sewage system. When that happens the village filtration system gets overloaded and with all the rules & regulations they have to operate with the rain water has to be treated the same as sewage.
It's a costly unnecessary burden that will eventually result in increased rates for our sewage bills if allowed to continue. Years and years ago it was a common practice to run down spouts into the sewage system. Many of the older homes were set up this way. I've found clay pipes in the ground around my home that were originally put in for that purpose. My house is around 130 years old. When it was built there were out houses and cisterns in the back yards of houses up down my street. But that is another story and yes, my down spouts were disconnected from the sewers before we even bought the place. However there are some that are still hooked up. I imagine there are some people that aren't even aware of it but are finding out with smoke pouring out of their basement drains. Remember the Fire Chief reporting calls were up last month?
A company called LSW from across the river is doing the testing along with cleaning out the sewers. They were in my neighborhood yesterday. Guess it's been some time since the sewers were last cleaned. Their smoke bombs emit a white smoke that quickly pin point places that are still hooked up to the sewer lines. It's a harmless white smoke that can be quickly exhausted by opening doors and windows. You can use a fan to help it along. The testing is being down in Russell Heights too since most homes up in that area are the village sewage system.
Village officials wanted to once again get word out that the testing is taking place. Admittedly it's scary seeing smoke pouring out but they ask that you check it out before hitting the panic button. If it's coming from the basement sewers it just means you got some work to do to get in compliance with the laws.
ole nib
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Are you aware that there are people living in the village that donot have village sewage or Buckeye Water ? People living in the 18th St Hts., who are within the village limits might I add,have neither of these village services. Maybe someday.............
Is this the same LSW that the village hired to clean the digesters, but then pulled out after realizing they were not equipped to do the job and still billed the village $10,000?
Far as I know it is one & the same.
nib
Surace and Saracco hired them again, whats that tell you.
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