In this week’s Accountable report, Erika Harris checks back in with a Beaumont couple who are unable to flush their toilets every time there is heavy rainfall.
Sheridan Jefferson says she is “mad and disgusted with the whole situation.”
Jefferson says sewage is also backing up in her home following heavy rainfall.
In a previous report, Mike Harris said the issue is old infrastructure. Sheridan Jefferson lives next to a sewer line that runs down Lucas and serves most of North Beaumont’s neighborhoods.
Rain water shouldn’t enter this system, but it does, and when it flows in faster than a lift station can pump it out, the water backs up into homes.
Harris said Water Utilities installed check valves on the line as a temporary solution in 2021.
“This check valve closes off, this line starts getting full, we bring the vacuum trucks in here and vacuum this utility hole here out,” said Harris. “That’s what we do to actually get relief into this neighborhood, so everyone here can flush.”
Harris says Jefferson and others are now able to flush within one or two hours when it used to be one or two days. It still isn’t a solution, but Harris says the city is making repairs to prevent the problem.
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