City council talks sewage issues

GRUNDY CENTER – During the public forum at the Grundy Center city council meeting Monday night, Larissa Johnson addressed the council on sewage issues she has been having at her property on H Avenue.
“Six to nine months ago, we had the first issue,” Johnson said. “I had just laid my kids down for a nap, and I smelled this god awful scent. I walked past the bathroom, and sewage water had just exploded all over our bathroom.”
Johnson said that after she cleaned up the water, she got in contact with the city to ask what was going on, and they informed her that they were jetting the sewer. The water that came out of her toilet wasn’t raw sewage, but rather water from the toilet bowl that had been pushed out of the toilet by the pressure from the jetting. Johnson was instructed to put a towel over her toilet seat the next time there was jetting going on.
“We had a plumber come out and run a camera to prove that it wasn’t just our issue. [The plumber ran the camera] 200 feet to nearest manhole, and that saw [the issue] was nothing to do with us,” she said. “So now we have this five hundred dollar bill, and people aren’t communicating to our neighborhood about what’s going on with this sewage issue. If they keep jetting system, I keep having this headache. I’m not saying I want [the council] to pay my whole bill, but at least my camera to prove it’s not our issue. We just cant keep paying the plumber to come out every six to nine months to keep telling us its not our problem.”
Read the full story in the March 31 edition of The Grundy Register.