Wednesday, April 17, 2013
You can help save yourself, your neighbors and everyone who lives downstream from flooding problems by taking a few steps to reduce the chance of flooding.
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Wednesday, April 17
From the Wauwatosa Department of Public Works: The National Weather Service has forecast heavy rain and issued a flood watch for all of southeastern Wisconsin through Friday. As a precautionary measure, the City of Wauwatosa is encouraging residents to reduce the risk of sewer overflows and basement backups by reducing the amount of water they use. Using less water now, reduces the amount of water flowing into the sewer system during heavy rainfall. Here are some simple ways to help (source: MMSD): Here are some easy and quick preventative steps residents can take to reduce the risk of basement flooding or backups. The best way to have the greatest prevention impact is to move water as far away from the foundation of your house as possible…
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
After decades of deferred maintenance on sanitary and storm sewer systems, rebuilding to meet current needs will cost resident ratepayers significantly more each year for the next five years and probably beyond.
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- Jim Price
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Wednesday, December 12, 2012
It is time to pay the piper. The sewer piper, that is. After decades of low spending, both sanitary and storm sewer rates will increase considerably next year and would continue to rise over the four years thereafter, under a recommendation passed unanimously Tuesday night by the Budget and Finance Committee. The sewer rate increase will go to the full Common Council next Tuesday for consideration. If the measure passes, in 2013, the city's "local charge" for sanitary sewer service will rise by 20 percent, according to City Finance Director John Ruggini's recommendation — "The impact of the capital improvement budget on rates," Ruggini said. But because the resident ratepayer's sanitary sewer bill is split about 50 percent between the city…
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
City is conducting flow tests in neighborhoods north of the Village to determine how much clear water is leaking into area sanitary sewer lines.
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- Jim Price
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Wednesday, April 25, 2012
The Menomonee River ran a bright apple green Tuesday and will continue to from time to time as the city performs tests of sewer laterals. Most people have gotten used to seeing Wauwatosa's waterways occasionally take on an unnatural hue and know that it neither a holiday nor a massive spill of some terrible contaminant. "No, it isn't St. Patrick's Day," said Bill Porter, director of public works. "We're doing some dye-water flooding and that's why the Menomonee River is colored with a harmless food dye." Porter said Tuesday testing Tuesday was in the neighborhood of North 83rd Street and Milwaukee Avenue, where the department was doing flow testing to determine private and public inflow and infiltration of clear water getting into the …
Lex Parsimoniae
10:51 am on Friday, December 14, 2012
Time for bigger, more efficient main sewers on our side...to overflow the deep tunnel even quicker. Just happy I live on the high ground. more ›