Sac City, Iowa –Following are selected excerpts of the conversation. TSN makes no claim that this is a complete transcript of the above video.
Barb Powell
This is down in the area of the golf course, that street that runs down in fro not Bill’s, Tom’s and Steve-
Steve Irwin
10th and Gishwiller. Well, Frank and I have been observing this for a lot of years. As most of you know, I’ve lived in the neighborhood, I haven’t been there for about 5 years, but I still own a duplex right in that area.
Maybe a little history there, Gishwiller has got a real low spot between 10th and 11th street, and that storm sewer, on big rains, it always, water’s back up and it gets pretty deep in there…
And in fact when it gets high enough, the outlet is Frank’s lot, it’s just east of my duplex so it runs down that lot and then it can build up on the, what would it be, Toni Shea’s house there, and then it runs down through Brenny’s, and then on out through the golf course. I personally have noticed a change though in the last, maybe the last 12 months. the basement of my duplex is historically during very wet periods will get some dampness. Not bad, it might get just a little bit of water in the basement here and there. I am now getting water on every rain, I mean even, when it raind a half an inch here 10 days ago, I got a lot of water in my basement, and it’s got soil in it, it’s coming, I believe through the wall, and I’ve got no way of proving this, but I’m sure that storm sewer is backing up, and I think what it’s doing is forcing its way right into that basement. I know that there was an attempt to fix that, Bob I don’t remember, has it been maybe five years ago?
Bob Scheffler
No we didn’t.
Steve Irwin
I don’t know what, technically is going on there, I mean, I’m not sitting here claiming to be a drainage expert, but there’s definitely something going on there, and I think I’m probably getting the brunt of it, and frankly, I’m getting tired of cleaning the basement, and especially during …
I mean, it’s a drought, practically right now. There’s no way water should be coming in during a half inch rain in this kind of deal right now, and I’m just getting it every time, and, in fact last time we had over an inch it was deep enough, it drowned the pilot light in my water heater, I mean so it’s, you know, it’s gotta be a foot deep to do that.
Nick Frohardt
With an inch of rain?
Steve Irwin
With an inch of rain, yes.
Nick Frohardt
There’s something going on
Steve Irwin
There’s something going on thee. Now, I know Frank’s here, I know he’s got some pictures … blowouts in his lot, and that they’re getting worse, they’re just working right up the hill… It’s like little volcanoes, It’s just working back
(Frank Strain passes photos around the council and explains them. Frank claims that he has been pursuing this issue since Mahannah was the city administrator. He also shows pictures of a hole in Shea’s yard that the city coned over a year ago, but otherwise did nothing with that is not starting to erode further. He also shows photos of where a city sewer has sunk down making it inoperable leaving the water to drain through Shea’s yard and into a private tile)
Bob Scheffler
Over in Sheas, there is a problem there. It probably won’t be tomorrow, but hopefully Wednesday, we’re going to dig that again, and it’s gotton bigger, and it looks like there’s two lines that must be in there. You can see one. You can look down, you can see one. It must be another one deeper that maybe is the culprit…
But up there by Shea’s, that needs to be done, and I think in answer to your’s frank, I think if that tile is full, it’s creating a back pressure and pushing the water out…
The water coming back in your basement, I wasn’t aware of that, that much, that is.
(The city administrator and maintenance department head make the argument that the sewers are too broken up to send a camera into, but will try when they dig up Shea’s line.)
(Brenny indicates that on his observation that the street seems to be sinking in front of his house, this may indicate undermining which may eventually lead to street problems.)
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