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Emergency Weather Tips
Tips to Prevent Sewer Backups
Your home's side sewer runs from the house to the main sewer in the street. Blockages or flooding of the side sewer can cause sewer backups. Maintaining the side sewer is the owner's responsibility.
- • Keep roots or other obstructions from blocking your home's side sewer.
- • If you need repairs for a side sewer backup, look under "Plumbing, Drains and Sewer Cleaning" in The Yellow Pages.
- • If there is a heavy storm and sewage backs up through sinks or toilets, call Seattle Public Utilities' sewer and drainage maintenance staff, (206) 386-1800. City workers will check and remove blockages in the main sewer line. If the problem is the result of too much storm water in the system, you may have to wait until the storm has subsided to have the backup resolved.
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