Backwater valves in new construction is fine, but it's not going to help anybody else." Chandler argued a number of city streets have always flooded, even way back to when he was a kid.

Ed Buchan, with the City of Raleigh Department of Public Utilities, explains why each home needs a backwater valve to prevent sewage from backing up into the house.

Theses measures include maintenance rodding of plumbing and sewer drains, and the installation of battery backup sump pumps and backwater valves, all of which can prevent damage to your home and ...

The Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction (ICLR) has launched a backwater valve installation website to provide basic information about sewage backflow prevention devices to assist homeowners ...

Guidance on how language within building and plumbing codes should be interpreted with respect to backwater valves should support mandatory installation in all or most new Canadian homes, suggests ...

Backwater valves can prevent sewage from traveling back into a home during a heavy rainfall. Sump pumps move water out of a home from a basement.

City of Windsor officials are calling on homeowners to install backwater valves under the subsidy program. We did this back in June and it proved disastrous. Reader Letters Published Oct 07, 2017 ...

Just quick because I'm in a meeting -- There is a ball valve, but the seat for it is worn and it leaks by. When I run clean water, clean water is what comes out of the pipe (which I think is the ...

Apr. 16—Newton City Council last week unanimously approved changes to the sewer ordinance and is now requiring landowners to disconnect old faulty sanitary sewer pipes from the public sewer main ...