GI sewers in danger of backing up
GRAND ISLAND - Grand Island city officials say sanitary sewers are running at max capacity and are in danger of overflowing.
The wastewater division of the city public works department posted on Facebook that the city's sanitary sewers are running at more than full capacity.
Our news partners KSNB Local Four report the system typically handles 13 million gallons per day, but is designed handle three times that flow. City officials say the system has now exceeded that limit and they're worried the city's three major collection lines are in danger of overflowing. This means that there's a chance that sewage could start backing up into peoples homes.
City officials say it's illegal to divert water from a sump pump into the sanitary sewer system. Instead it should be drained into the storm sewer system.
Grand Island city officials have reached out to the Nebraska Department of Environment and Energy to see how best to address the problem.