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Post by lifesaver on Nov 30, 2013 9:18:12 GMT -5
Sewer lines get infiltration of ground water and folks sometimes find it easier to hook the sump pump up to the drain there in the basement. Please tell me that it's not legal to drain your sump pump to your sewer line. This doesn't seem right by any stretch of the imagination. I know when I had a sump pump in my basement when I lived in Cumberland Township my sump pump drained out to the ground, and when I placed a natural drain instead of the sump pump I had to get a permit from the township to discharge the water to the drainage ditch in front of the house.
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Post by Dexter on Nov 30, 2013 9:39:41 GMT -5
No it is not allowed. Hard to enforce of course. I even know that there were spouting downspouts that tied into the sewer. If I recall I think the boro or the authority got a 20,000 dollar grant from somewhere to begin addressing these problems.
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Post by Fire Marshal Bill on Nov 30, 2013 17:03:49 GMT -5
No it is not allowed. Hard to enforce of course. I even know that there were spouting downspouts that tied into the sewer. If I recall I think the boro or the authority got a 20,000 dollar grant from somewhere to begin addressing these problems. I remember several years ago, the borough was plugging sewers and putting smoke bombs in them and using fans to force the smoke under pressure to see where it was coming out. Traps would keep it from coming into the houses proper, but would show up from down spouts, some sub-pumps and leaks. Why should we pay to treat water that is basically rain water, and doesn't need treating? I believe, but not sure, that Gettysburg and most communities have separate sanitary and storm sewer systems.
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Post by Dexter on Nov 30, 2013 17:50:30 GMT -5
I'm talking about houses from the 30's. Back than that was the way they did things.
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Post by paulkellett on Nov 30, 2013 20:19:42 GMT -5
Never said it was legal, or a good idea, to put rain water in the drain, it was just to say that it happens and that some capacity has to be allocated for it. Gettysburg does and is required to have a separate storm water system. ( funny but D.C. does not and the plan now is a multi-billion dollar fix. But back to Gettysburg some early 1900's basements have floor drains and lord only knows where they go.GMA does not have good maps even of some of the older sewer mains. This of course comes from my experience of trying to figure out a problem,and being told they did not know where the main is, and that they had no idea as to where my house hooked in. I was having a problem with tree roots clogging the drain, but had no trees on my property. Funny ending, it was still my problem.
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Post by Venter on Dec 2, 2013 13:52:03 GMT -5
In my home in Baltimore, built around 1919 or so, the Coal Bins were built into the house. The coal room, next to the furnace, had a drain that emptied into the sewers. When they tested the sewer system, using forced smoke, all of our homes got filled with smoke, and the smoke alarms all went off. Talk about PANIC! We had some prior notification of a "test", but had no clue that our homes were hooked in that way.
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