Connect offers several types of optional coverage that you may be able to add to its homeowners policies, depending on where you live. Backup and overflow: Pays for damage from a sump pump failure or sewer backup. Service line: Pays for damage to utility lines or pipes that connect your ho...
All factors suggested a quantifiable decrease in inflow after the sump pump removal.The percent capture of the sanitary sewer system, a function of wet weather inflow volume, was also examined. The percent capture was found to decrease from 1.8% to 0.5%. The decrease in percent capture after ...
A sump pump was also added to dewater the second trench following the end of the wet weather event.The paper describes modifications of the trench-type "self-cleaning" wet well for submersible pumps. This includes addition of a suction tube with internal guide vanes connected to the bottom of...
The second type of study uses direct measurements of footing drain flows, either at the end of a house lead in a manhole, or using a continuous monitor on a sump pump. Findings from these studies have indicated that wet weather flows from areas with footing drains connected to sanitary ...
the FDD is performed, except where gravity discharges can be accommodated.Following the disconnection of the footing drains from the sanitary sewer system and the installation of the sump pump system, selected systems were monitored to measure the peak flows generated by these installed sump pumps. ...
Complete Sanitary Sewer Evaluation Surveys Rules and standard specifications requiring sealed manhole lids Rules and standard specifications requiring downspout connection Rules and standard specifications requiring verifiable sump pump discharges away from the foundation Rules and standard specifications prohibiting ...
Residents of the city of Ann Arbor, Michigan have experienced periodic basement backup problems dating back to 1968. After a significant rain event in 1998, Ann Arbor created a task force to develop a plan to help prevent future basement backups and sanitary sewer overflows (SSOs). The task...
Different methods of performing SSES field investigations include smoke testing, sanitary sewer televising, dyed-water downspout testing, manhole inspections and footer drain/sump pump investigations. The SSES provides calculations showing the total amount of achievable infiltration and inflow removal and the...
In 2013, the City of Lansing (City) implemented a program to provide financial assistance to those properties that have experienced basement backups. Basement backups have occurred in both combined and separated sewer areas of the City. Financial assistance includes cost for labor and equipment for...
The drain should lead into a pump chamber that would remove polluted water which would then be conveyed to thesewer system. Secondly, to make doubly sure that the pollution was contained, a cement-bentonite cut-off trench, founded in bedrock, should be constructed 3 m downstream of the sub...