Tuesday, August 7, 2012
MMSD will reimburse the village for the lateral inspection, which aims to identify the scope of defects in the sanitary sewer system.
The village is moving forward with a program that will inspect private sanitary sewer laterals with a closed circuit television camera to identify defects in the sanitary sewer system. The Village Board on Monday night approved a $162,221 contract with Expediters, an Oconomowoc-based company, to televise the sanitary laterals of 390 homes in the southwestern basin, which has been identified as a high priority area for sewer improvements. The televising work will be paid for with the sanitary sewer fund balance and will later be reimbursed by MMSD through the PPII program. The lateral inspection will provide the village with data on the effectiveness of tightening leaky laterals, as well as identify what volume of clear water can be …
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Village officials shocked at high price tag of expanding sewer capacity and ask village staff for more information. Trustees also moved forward with a pilot project to inspect and repair private sanitary sewer laterals.
It's safe to say the Whitefish Bay Village Board was a little surprised at the $134 million price tag needed to prepare the village's sewers for a 500-year storm similar to the one that hit the village on July 22, 2010. Donohue and Associates, the engineering firm hired by the village for its sewer work, presented the results of its underground infrastructure study Monday night, revealing that there is room under village streets for storm sewer pipes as big as eight feet in diameter needed to handle that level of rainfall. Unfortunately, those improvements come in the nine-figure price range, much to the concern of village officials. "I think we’re going to price people out of their home,” said Village President Julie Siegel. The cost of …
Thursday, March 8, 2012
Whitefish Bay officials considering sharing half of sanitary sewer upgrade costs for work in Shorewood that will be mutually beneficial.
Shorewood and Whitefish Bay are mulling a cost share agreement as both communities move forward in their campaigns to mend faulty, outdated sewers. Sewer projects are scheduled over the next several years in the northwest portion of Shorewood, with upgrades to the village's sanitary and stormwater sewer system. When the projects are finished, most sanitary sewer connections between the two communities will be cut, though some connections will still remain. The cost share agreement took into consideration the mutually beneficial sanitary sewer work conducted along Fairmount Avenue in Whitefish Bay in 2010 and sanitary sewer upgrades on East Kensington Boulevard to start this summer in Shorewood. The cost share agreement has been drafted to…
Friday, June 24, 2011
Downpours Monday and Tuesday added up to more than Deep Tunnel would hold without threat of basement backups.
Heavy rains this week capped by the downpour Tuesday evening caused the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District to divert 170.5 million gallons of untreated combined stormwater and sanitary sewage overflow to area waterways. The district also "blended" 26.8 million gallons of partially treated wastewater and released it to Lake Michigan. According to MMSD's report to the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources on sewer overflows resulting from heavy rain on Monday and Tuesday: Localized flooding resulted from strong storms Monday morning with about 2 inches of rain falling in less than two hours. The Deep Tunnel filled to 288 million gallons out of 521 million gallons capacity. MMSD pumped the tunnel down throughout the day and …
Matt
4:53 pm on Tuesday, August 28, 2012
They performed this inspection on my block this morning. The individual doing the work was very friendly and allowed us to watch what the camera was seeing. Every single lateral he inspected had at least some incursion of roots. At least one lateral was impassible to the camera. I feel pretty depressed that I get to look forward to a $6000 bill in the not too distant future. I have to wonder how … more ›