A simulation of a minor rainstorm found that four times more stormwater would leak into sewer laterals in several neighborhoods in the City of Wauwatosa than into the city sewers under the streets, according to an engineering consultant’s report described in The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.The report found that a total of 380 gpm of infiltration would come from a group of homes along one street, and city engineer Bill Wehrley said that showed a need for all communities in the area to identify and help fix leaky laterals. The report said actual leakage from the laterals would have been much
