Sewage Cleanup and Sanitation in Anderson, SC

When a sewer line is obstructed, the sewage that is thick and dark is dangerous to your health. This sewer waste is extremely unsanitary, containing contaminants such as bacteria, viruses and pathogens. All of these contaminants can pose a serious health danger and cause many illnesses if humans or animals suffer exposure. If it happens that you experience sewage backup on the premises of your home or business, or a toilet backup in either location, fixing either one is of the highest priority. Having this dirty sewer waste in your home is dangerous and should be removed immediately. Furthermore, to know what is causing the sewer backups may aid in stopping this potentially hazardous situation. To help you in handling sewage backups in your home or business, following is a list of things that may help:

Sewage Backup Causes

• Heavy Rainfall – Excess rains can overwhelm your town or city’s storm sewer system. If this happens, the waste can swell into the attached sewer lines bringing your home or business in possible risk of water backflow. Rising rivers and streams, hurricanes and other related events can cause flood and sewage waters to mix and present genuine health related problems. You should be extremely cautious when wading in this type of water, and even stay cautious after the water recedes and dries up. It’s probable for the organic matter to turn aerosolized and respirable, meaning there’s a chance you could breathe it into your lungs. To stop contact or risk of breathing in these contaminants, legitimate PPE should be worn at all times.
• Tree Roots – Trees can have long roots that grow into water or sewer lines and crush or break them. Damage to pipes and a sewer backup can also be induced by tree roots that aren’t even on your premises. Be keenly aware of any tree roots that can sprawl into your water and sewer lines that lead to the central sewer line or septic system.
• Old/Aging Sewer Lines – Older and aging sewage structures are susceptible to breaking down and cracking, causing sewer backups, flooded basements along with entire home flooding. The older your area or dwelling may raise the chance of this type of damage occurring.
• Clogged and Blocked Drain Pipes – If your house or business’s main sewer pipes or drain pipes become fouled, sewage may back up inside the dwelling. A perfect example is: if a single commode causes a sewage blockage, the lines connected to that toilet, or the main drain lines of more toilets, will also become backed up.

• Old and/or Damaged Lines – Aging sewage systems have a tendency to suffer damage and crumble, leading to sewage backups and flooded dwellings full of sewage. If your home or area is older, the chance is greater that you’ll experience damaged sewer lines than newer ones.
• Copious Rainfall – Heavy and sudden downpours can defeat your local storm sewer lines rapidly. If these public sewers can’t deal with excess downpours, water can backup and progress into connected sewer lines. This can put your dwelling at risk of backflow problems. Regional flood waters from events like surging rivers and creeks, hurricanes, or any other weather events can cause clean water to merge with sewage water and other chemicals and contaminants that cause serious health consequences. Use extreme carefulness when wading in this type of waste, but also stay cautious once it dries. The dried organic matter can turn aerosolized and turn respirable. Correct PPE needs to be worn at all times to stop contact and risk inhaling polluted air.
• Blocked/Clogged Sewer Lines – A fouled pipe or sewer line can cause sewage to back up into your home or business. If only one commode becomes blocked, the sewage backup can spread down the sewer lines and affect all linked toilets on that line.
• Tree Roots – Tree roots can cause damage to water and sewer lines. The roots from large trees can make their way into and around the lines and damage them tremendously. If the roots around your property are not the cause, roots from nearby trees can extend under property lines and ruin your sewer pipes, causing a sewage problem. Be extra aware of all tree roots close to your mainline sewer pipes and/or pipes leading to your septic tank.

Our Anderson, SC sewage cleanup and sanitation process

The PuroClean procedures for cleaning and restoring Category 3 water, which is sewer and tainted water backup cleaning and restoration as set forth by IICRC industry standards, consisting of:

1. Ensure all employees and occupants remain safe by limiting access to the site to restoration employees only in order to prevent any health-related problems.

2. Health and Safety checks and assessment of the workplace.

3. Ensure all PuroClean employees are supplied with and use the correct personal protection equipment (PPE). This includes, but isn’t limited to the following:

• Full face respirator
• Nitrile and cut resistant gloves
• Rubber boots with steel toes and shank
• Entire body suit protection

4. Put into place established engineering controls, critical barriers, to alleviate cross-contamination.

5. Removing any type of potential safety risks if at all possible.

6. Removal of bulk water, soil, and contaminates.

7. Removal of all contaminated porous and semi-porous materials which are not salvageable, which can consist of but are not limited to:

• Hardwood flooring
• Padded and upholstered items
• Gypsum board
• Carpet, rugs, pad, or underlayment
• Vinyl flooring and underlayment

8. Cleaning processes put in place and the use of EPA registered biocides and antimicrobials

9. Full physical cleaning of all structure items that remain

10. We suggest using a third-party Certified Industrial Hygienist (CIH) to conduct clearance testing to ensure the property is returned to a safe pre-loss condition for health and safety.

11. All materials affected by excess waters are to be dried and returned to pre-loss dry condition

12. Post restoration cleaning of all equipment used

13. All materials from demolition process removed completely

Call PuroClean for Professional Sewage Cleanup in Anderson, SC!

Contact the PuroClean professionals for sewage abatement, cleaning and restoration. Whether it’s from a stopped up toilet, flood waters or sewage drain backups to tackle the problem for your dwelling. PuroClean uses the latest, state-of-the-art equipment and cleansing tools to completely and effectively clean and salvage all affected items and structures.

The sheer expertise of our sewage removal and cleaning services, in addition to the speed in which we deliver the work, as well as our compassion demonstrated throughout the process helps make PuroClean your ideal damage remediation and restoration company. We vow to do everything feasible and within our power to fully remediate properties in all the towns and cities that make up our service areas.

*Not all PuroClean offices provide sewage cleanup and sanitation cleaning services.