Experts had been telling us for ages to install a French drain to catch any water before it could flood our basement—whether due to sewer backups ... where I cover all kinds of vacuum cleaners.

You can prevent a sewage-filled basement or lower level by taking 15 minutes to install a floor drain backflow preventer, ...

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Fortunately for modern homeowners, the problem was solved in the late 1940s with the introduction of the sump pump. Standing ...

Several Waterhouse Street residents say a rain storm in August left their basements flooded with raw sewer water and now hope ...

Vandalism and theft have forced the City of Cape Town’s Water and Sanitation Directorate to spend more than R12-million to replace and repair 6 590 stolen and vandalised sewer drain manhole ...

Dozens of skeletons dated to the medieval period and antiquity have been uncovered in the basement of a home in France. The assemblage of human remains was identified during an excavation ...

That’s when a retired couple in the Dillsburg area said they heard a loud crash from their basement amid heavy rains ... home insurance policies don’t cover damage from external flooding ...

Drain flies, also known as sink flies, sewer gnats, or filter flies, are a tiny, common household pest that thrive in moist environments like drains, sewers, and septic tanks. They look like fruit ...

As failing pipes result in thousands of residential overflows and the city fights a federal order to expand its clean-up reimbursement program, some residents turn to the courts.

ST. LOUIS — "We see a lot of water bottles, trash," Nicholle Spencer with the Metropolitan Sewer District said. "We've seen things like basketballs, skateboards, anything and everything that's ...