A Reddit user wrote a story this week about how he bought a newly flipped house, only to discover three months after moving in that the waste drain wasn’t attached to the city sewer.
How did he figure it out, you might ask? By inadvertently army-crawling through liquid waste in the crawlspace of the home. As he tells it, he was under the house inspecting things while his wife was using the bathroom.
“Then I hear it,” the user writes. “A toilet flush. It didn’t hit me until it hit me — the better part of a flush splattered across my back unleashing a subhuman scream of disgust and outrage.”
He also posted this video of the problem under the house, and you can hear and see the water pouring into the crawlspace. The homeowner said the problem cost $3,000 to fix.
A man in Peoria, Arizona, broke his leg after falling 20 feet into a lift station June 27. He had been working on a build-out of the system when he fell, according to the local fire department.
The man was responsive when first responders got to the scene and extricated him from the lift station. He was hospitalized for his fractured leg.
A squatter who filed fraudulent paperwork in order to get herself on the deed of a New York City home racked up a $25,000 water bill, and now the city is asking the true property owner to pay for it.
The squatter had filed paperwork with fake signatures from the owner’s mom, father and sister even though they’d all been deceased for more than 10 years.
Meanwhile, the property owner is suing to get the bill thrown out.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has announced that $275 million in grant funding is available to municipalities with infrastructure projects to protect or improve water quality and/or public health. This funding, available through the Water Infrastructure Improvement Act and the Intermunicipal Water Infrastructure Grants Program, is part of the governor’s $2.5 billion Clean Water Infrastructure Act of 2017.
“Water infrastructure is the key to economic development and lays the groundwork for future growth and prosperity,” Cuomo says. “We are committed to ensuring that all New Yorkers have access to clean water, and I urge local leaders to take advantage of these grant opportunities to make a real difference for the municipalities they serve.”
To date, more than $1 billion has been allocated through the Clean Water Infrastructure Act to address clean water and drinking water challenges in New York communities. Projects eligible for grant funding include critical water infrastructure projects that address cyanotoxins associated with algal blooms, combined and/or sanitary sewer overflows and impacts from flooding, as well as the rehabilitation of contaminated water supplies.
Municipalities, county or town improvement districts and certain other entities are eligible to apply for funding.
