On 7/23/18 2:33 PM, [email protected] wrote:
Reminds me of another story.
One of our employees came into my office and said: “Chuck the toilet in
the CO has overflowed pretty bad”. I looked at him like he was an idiot
and told him to grab a mop. Was he “too good” to fix the problem.
He came back in about 5 minutes, hangdog look on his face,:”Chuck, I
don’t think you understand how bad this overflow is”. Irritated I
stomped out of the office following him back to the C.O.
Turns out a fly-by-night porta potty outfit was dumping its trucks in
whichever random manhole they could find. They did dump in a sewer
manhole, but in that part of town we were at the end of the line and the
slope of the line was not great. The manhole was maybe 20 feet from
that toilet. And the manhole lid was probably above the toilet in
elevation.
C.O. bathroom was about 6 inches deep of fun. I spent the next 36 hours
with hip waders on and shovel in hand. WOW what a mess.
Stories like this make me glad my house is not on a low point. But if it
was or I had a basement, I would for sure install one of those mainline
sewer backflow valves.
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