City of Ann Arbor SSWWEP - Citizens Advisory Committee Coordination - 2.47 -C- FDD installations create a path for sanitary back up flooding to enter the sump pump "container" and be pumped back out...How can this potential sanitary pollution of the storm system be legal and tolerated?

2.47 -C- FDD installations create a path for sanitary back up flooding to enter the sump pump "container" and be pumped back out...How can this potential sanitary pollution of the storm system be legal and tolerated?

Posted by Lori Byron on 21 Dec, 2013
Category: Category 2 - about potential recommendations

Frank Burdick’s Log Number: 19

Submitted by: Burdick log

Category (1,2,3): 2

Status: Closed

Estimated date to address: N/A

Q. FDD installations create a path for sanitary back up flooding to enter the sump pump "container" and be pumped back out to the new horizontal storm line at the curb and ultimately direct to the River. The lids on these containers are not always 100% watertight due to the penetrations required for pipes and wires, and due to periodic maintenance. How can this potential sanitary pollution of the storm system be legal and tolerated?

A. Sanitary pollution of the storm system is not legal. The goal of the SSWWE project is to evaluate the effectiveness of the FDD to date in removing wet weather flow from the sanitary sewer system and thereby reducing the potential of such occurrences.

City of Ann Arbor SSWWEP - Citizens Advisory Committee Coordination — City of Ann Arbor

2.47 -C- FDD installations create a path for sanitary back up flooding to enter the sump pump "container" and be pumped back out...How can this potential sanitary pollution of the storm system be legal and tolerated?