The Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction (ICLR) has launched a backwater valve installation website to provide basic information about sewage backflow prevention devices to assist homeowners in ...

Des Moines will reimburse homeowners who install backflow devices that prevent sewage from seeping into homes through basement floor drains during heavy rains — a problem many residents faced during ...

News -At their regular meeting last week, municipal council received a report from public works director Andrew Drzewiecki about financial options for the installation of backwater valves in response ...

Since Des Moines relaunched an incentive program a year ago, fewer than 200 property owners have sought reimbursement for a device that can prevent sewage from backing into homes. Program advocates ...

City of Windsor officials are calling on homeowners to install backwater valves under the subsidy program. We did this back in June and it proved disastrous. A rectangular cut was made in our basement ...

|Lindsay Bunce suffered basement flooding when water came in through the shared wall after a pipe in the home attached to hers broke. The house on the other side of the wall is abandoned. It’s all ...

A new home backwater-valve grant program intended to get rid of abuses by some plumbing businesses has been approved by a city council committee. It will have five city vetted contractors for ...

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Sarnia is offering more money towards backwater valve installations after relatively few homeowners whose basements flooded in August took advantage, a city report says. City council unanimously ...