West Washington Blvd in Lombard has a flooding problem during the really really heavy rains. The pictures below are the day after one such event on 7/24/2010. The first picture is looking west down West Washington Blvd. standing near the corner of Washington and Green Valley. When I went out during the rain the previous night, the flood water was at the barricade.
Of course when this happens, many of the houses on the block get water in the basement. I get seepage along the perimeter of the basement floor and through lots of cracks in the floor. If I do not loose power, it will only get an inch or two deep in the middle of the basement. The water just runs into the sump pump pit.
I used to get sewage backup as well, but we took care of this back in 1999 when we installed an injection pit with a overhead sewer pipe.
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