Managing water on your property can significantly reduce your chances of having a wet basement. For more information on proper grading around your home, tips on gutters and downspouts, and to learn about your home's lateral and foundation drain: www.mmsd.com/what-you-can-do/managing-water-on-your-property

i don't even have a basement what am i doing here

@thekongstocks

2 жыл бұрын

😅🤣😂

@user-yg8dh1fw6l

2 ай бұрын

Maybe your subconscious is telling you you need a basement 😂

One of the Best Videos Ever!!!

@Tedk505 Even if the combined sewer system did not exist, basement backups would still occur in areas with too much excess water leaking into the sanitary sewer system from private property. Milwaukee and Shorewood are both looking at separating where it makes sense from an environmental and cost benefit standpoint. We did not explain the difference between combined and separate sewers in the video because it would have added a significant amount of time to a video that is already 7 minutes long

Storm drains still hooked up and streams, rivers and spillways clogged up with debris and trees are a water slow down. Choke points i a storm drain and sewerage system also slow water being moved or discharged.

I recently had a sewer backup, the only home in the neighborhood. The city claims it was from tree roots. I assume this means in my laterals. How can the city sewer backup into my home if I have a blockage in my portion of the system. I'm failing to see this. Please explain or point to link. Very informative video here. Thanks!

@mmsd

2 жыл бұрын

Hi, Carlton, Laterals are only supposed to carry the water you use in your house out to the city's sanitary sewer pipe. Cracks and leaks in laterals end up allowing groundwater into the sewer, which can overwhelm the overall system and cause stormwater and wastewater to back up in the sewer system and into people's basements. The water that you used inside your home cannot get through the lateral and empty into the city's sewer out in the street. To learn more: www.mmsd.com/what-you-can-do/managing-water-on-your-property/laterals

3:21-3:56 is key!

So who do people talk to when the village you live in have a underground break in a water line during the winter and they are doing nothing as more n more residence of that area basement's start to flood going in a line 1 by 1 down the street .... ? Please tell me

@mmsd

3 жыл бұрын

Hi Brian, Please submit the contact us form on the MMSD website with details of your issue and our team will also send it to our contact(s) in your village. www.mmsd.com/about-us/contact-us

Disconnect your storm drains from your sewer line. And have it reconnected to a sump pump, run that separately out from your basement.

Imagine if the infrastructure bill covered fixing this issue in towns. 😑

How much does it cost?

@mmsd

2 жыл бұрын

Hello, To learn more about managing water on your property and for programs in the MMSD service area please visit: www.mmsd.com/what-you-can-do/managing-water-on-your-property

Hi

If I get the cost of installing a sump pump credited on the MMSD section of my water bill I'll do it. Otherwise, why would I spend several thousand dollars to put in a sump? I have never had basement flooding issues. I live in separated sewer sections, but my foundation drain goes right into the sanitary sewer by way of a palmer valve. People don't just have money laying around to install sumps and tear out laterals. Get real.

@hellzy4188

3 жыл бұрын

AGREED this should be on the city to replace the laterals or put sump pumps in.

MMSD conveniently skips discussing parts of Milwaukee that have combined sewers (no separate sanitary versus storm). Rather than spend millions on the “deep tunnel” they should have begun separating the sewers in the 1980’s as streets were ripped up for other projects. By 2011, a huge chunk could have been separated.

I need to stay by these kind of black because people don't care

Milwaukee has terrible systems so many issues the lake now smells like shit

@mmsd

2 жыл бұрын

MMSD works hard to protect the area’s waterways and has captured and cleaned 98.5% of all the stormwater and wastewater that's entered the regional sewer system since 1994. We continue to strive for zero overflows; however, when heavy rain threatens our area, preventing sewage from backing up into your basement is our highest priority. Before the Deep Tunnels, this region used to pollute Lake Michigan with an average of 50-60 overflows a year, and now we average 2.3. For more information on sewer overflows. To learn more about managing water on your property: www.mmsd.com/what-you-can-do/managing-water-on-your-property

@SA-rt6ei

2 жыл бұрын

@@mmsd nothing you do will ever make up for the damage done

@mmsd

2 жыл бұрын

@@SA-rt6ei Check out this video, by Milwaukee historian John Gurda, he shares the next steps in an ambitious plan to clean up the remaining historical pollution in the rivers and harbor of the Milwaukee Estuary Area of Concern. In scale, speed and impact, it's a historic opportunity to remove toxic pollution that is preventing our region from reaching its full potential. This project is vital to restore the health of our waterways and to open economic opportunities for Wisconsin and the Great Lakes region. kzread.info/dash/bejne/haCXrsmblru9nJM.html