FARGO - If you live in an area prone to flooding or heavy rain, you should be prepared to plug your drains to prevent sewer backup. "Raw sewage not only can damage building components and carpeting, ...

DES MOINES WEBSITE. TUESDAY’S RAINFALL PUSHED SOME ANKENY RESIDENTS OVER THE EDGE BECAUSE THAT RAINFALL BACKED SEWAGE INTO THEIR BASEMENTS. WE SPOKE WITH A HOMEOWNER WHO SAYS IT IS ALL THE RESULT OF ...

FOND DU LAC - Five months after Mark and Lori Kollman bought their home on 11th Street, the basement — complete with carpet and furniture — filled with 4 inches of water during a month of heavy ...

OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - The smell of sewer water invading their basements won’t be soon forgotten by a pair of Southwest Omaha families near 106th and Y Streets. Refinishing a finished basement heavily ...

Spring can bring heavy downpours. If you find water on your lower level after one of those storms, you might assume your homeowners' insurance or flood insurance would cover that. But not in the case ...

STEELTON, Pa. (WHTM) — A Dauphin County family is dealing with raw sewage in their basement after a backup from last Thursday’s storm. The homeowner blames Steelton Borough. The borough manager says ...

Chicago was built along a maze of rivers and marshy wetlands, and flooding has been an issue since Day One. Over the years, engineers have dreamt up some big, ambitious schemes to keep the water ...

When Ken Flaherty woke up last summer to find nearly two feet of sewage-tainted stormwater in his Beverly Hills basement — and then heard that hundreds of his neighbors were victims too, as well as ...