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Our sewer is backing up. I have called several rooter services and have heard that “Santa Barbara is very busy today”. Is there some clog issue going on here?
Santa Barbara Sewer back-up?
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December 21, 2019, 11:28 am
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I bet all the rooter folks are out holiday shopping.
Santa Barbara has a deteriorating sewer infrastructure with old broken pipes spreading contamination underground, to the creeks, and beaches. Lateral lines in many areas are not much better (those from your house ), and often infiltrated by tree roots due to the cracked or rotten orangeburg piping (the Mesa has a big problem with this, and caused our shower to back up with sewage). Channel Keeper had to sue the City in order to get them to address the main line problems : “Channelkeeper and the City signed a legally binding settlement agreement in March 2012 which requires the City to spend an additional $4.5 million over the ensuing five years to improve its sewer system operation and maintenance practices, significantly reduce sewage spills, and nearly double the number of miles of sewer pipes it repairs and replaces, with a focus on those that have the highest risk of exfiltrating and contaminating downstream creeks and beaches. ” https://www.sbck.org/current-issues/sewage/ In other words, during holidays or heavy rain, when the system is heavily impacted, problems can worsen.
Heck, no. They’ll all be sitting expectantly, cell phones in hand, waiting to tell you they’ll be overcharging by 200%, “due to the holidays.”
Not surprising. Most SBans are full of…
Its probably due to all the homeless people in town. Snark snark.
Actually, the major impact of the Channelkeeper lawsuit was that the City quietly changed the line of responsibility, so now the home owner is required to pay for all repairs all the way from their house up to and including the lateral and wye where the sewer connects to the main sewer pipe in the street. In adjacent cities the property owner’s responsibility ENDS at their property line. On upper Valerio street on the Westside over the past two years one by one most of the people have been required to dig up and replace their laterals and wyes. It could and should have been done as a City infrastructure upgrade and the whole street done in one project, instead of gouging us all for permits and plumber fees.