If you're preparing to become a homeowner for the first time, you have a lot on your plate. You want to educate yourself about the process and about various operational systems inside your home ...

A big pipe carries waste from your house to the main sewer line under the street ... level by taking 15 minutes to install a floor drain backflow preventer, also known as a backwater valve.

Relief should soon be coming to homeowners whose basements are affected by chronic flooding within the Western Outfall Sewer Basin. The city finalizing a pilot program to prevent basement flooding on ...