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Cleaning & Clogs
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Local systems
Winchester systems & permits
Winchester documents its own drainage problem in unusual detail. The Town divides flooding into three types: surface water from the Aberjona River and Horn Pond Brook, street flooding where the drainage system is only designed for a 25-year storm, and basement flooding where rising groundwater pushes through hairline cracks under hydrostatic pressure — and it says plainly that river and street work "will not impact existing groundwater flooding issues." Its sewer regulations make the building sewer entirely the property owner's responsibility from inside the building to the town main, and expressly prohibit the cheap workaround of running a sump pump, roof leader or french drain into the sanitary sewer.
Sources: winchester.us
Winchester's Rules and Regulations Regarding the Use of Public Sewers and Storm Drains define the Building Sewer and state: "The property owner is responsible for all upkeep, maintenance, and repair of said Building Sewer from its origin in the building to its connection to the Town-owned sanitary sewer." Section 3.7 adds that all costs of installation and connection are the sole responsibility of the owner.
Section 3.3(c): "No connections shall be made to the Sanitary Sewer that are intended to discharge inflow. Such prohibited connections include roof leaders, roof drains, cellar drains, sump pumps, catch basins, french drains, and uncontaminated cooling water discharges. Building Sewers with existing inflow sources that discharge directly or indirectly to the Sanitary Sewer must have such sources of inflow removed... It shall be a willful violation of these Rules and Regulations to reconnect any inflow source that has been disconnected."
The regulations require that "Separate Building Sewers shall be provided for each unit within a multi-family home," and that pre-existing building sewers may be used with new or substantially rehabilitated buildings "only when they are found, on examination and test by the Director, to meet all requirements of these Rules and Regulations," at the applicant's cost. Discharging pumped groundwater from a sump with an intake inside a structure requires a permit from the Town Engineer.
The Town's Local Flood Hazards page states roadway drainage systems are "typically designed to accommodate the 25-year storm event"; that any property is susceptible to basement flooding from rising groundwater or underground springs pushing water through hairline cracks under hydrostatic pressure, with sump pumps and perimeter or French drains among the remedies; and that "the town's efforts to address street drainage problems and flooding along the Aberjona River and its tributaries will not impact existing groundwater flooding issues."
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Drain & Sewer service in Winchester, and 66 nearby towns
We cover 67 towns across the North Shore, Greater Boston and southern New Hampshire.
67Towns covered
Essex County
- Amesbury
- Andover
- Ballardvale
- Beverly
- Boxford
- Danvers
- Essex
- Georgetown
- Gloucester
- Groveland
- Hamilton
- Haverhill
- Ipswich
- Lynn
- Lynnfield
- Manchester by the Sea
- Marblehead
- Merrimac
- Middleton
- Nahant
- Newbury
- Newburyport
- North Andover
- Peabody
- Plum Island
- Rockport
- Rowley
- Salem
- Salisbury
- Saugus
- South Hamilton
- Swampscott
- Topsfield
- Wenham
- West Newbury
Middlesex County
Rockingham County, NH
Norfolk County
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