Sewage Cleanup and Sanitation in Denver, CO

When a sewer line is blocked, the sewage that is thick and dark is dangerous to your health. This sewer water is extremely unclean, containing contaminants like 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 importance. Having this unsanitary sewer water in your home is dangerous and should be removed immediately. Furthermore, knowing what is causing the sewer obstruction may aid in preventing this potentially hazardous incident. To help you in managing sewage backups in your home or business, here’s a list of things that can help:

Causes of Sewage Backup

• Drain Pipe Blockages – Sewage can infiltrate your home or business when either your drain pipes or the main sewer line gets clogged. For example, if one toilet creates a sewage backup, the drain leading to that toilet, or the mainline of many toilets, will likely also be clogged.
• Tree Roots – Trees with long roots can grow into pipes and cause holes or crush the sewer line by encircling it. Even if the roots in your yard are not the problem, roots from adjoining property can reach your sewer pipe and damage it, creating a sewer backup. Always be cognizant of roots where your mainline to the street or septic system is placed.
• Damaged Sewer Lines – Aging sewage systems could break down and crack, creating sewage backups and flooded homes and basements. The older your area’s houses are, the greater possibility of these types of problems.
• Heavy Rainfall – Heavy amounts of rain can put a strain on your town’s storm sewer mains. If the public storm sewers can’t handle excess rainfall, the water can make its way into connected sewer lines, which can leave your home or business at risk of water backflows. Area-wide flooding waters from events like rising rivers and streams, hurricanes, and other isolated events can also combine with sewage water and other chemicals and harmful bacteria that can cause health-related issues. Extreme caution is needed when trying to walk in these waters, and even when the sewer water recedes and begins to dry out. Dried out organic waste can then become aerosolized and become respirable. Proper PPE should be worn to prevent contact and risk of breathing in these contaminants.

PuroClean’s sewage cleaning and sanitation process in Denver, CO

Our cleaning and remediation procedures for Category 3 water (which describes sewer and contaminated water backup) according to the standards put in place by the IICRC industry are:

1. Ensuring safety for all personnel and occupants by placing strict rules on site access to remediation personnel only in order to prevent health related occurrences.

2. Health and Safety checks and assessment of the entire work premises.

3. Ensure proper personal protection equipment (PPE) is being utilized by all restoration personnel. This may include but is not limited to:

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

4. Use established engineering controls, critical barriers, to prevent cross-contamination.

5. Eradicating any type of probable safety risks if at all possible.

6. Clearing the work area of all bulk water, soil, and contaminates.

7. Eradication and disposal of all contaminate affected porous and semi-porous items that is not restorable – which can be but is not limited to:

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

8. Implement cleaning methods and use of EPA registered biocides and antimicrobials

9. Manual cleaning of all remaining structure material

10. A third-party Certified Industrial Hygienist (CIH) is recommended to perform clearance testing, to ensure the building is returned to a pre-loss condition for health and safety.

11. Drying of all materials affected by the water intrusion back to pre-loss dry state

12. All equipment used on the project to be cleaned after restoration completion

13. Elimination and disposal of all demo materials removed from the site

Call PuroClean for Professional Sewage Cleanup in Denver, CO!

Our technicians utilize state-of-the-art equipment and cleaning methods to effectively restore and clean the damaged building materials and belongings from your house or business. If a sewage drain line backup from blockage occurs, call our professionals for sewage removal and cleaning services.

The sheer expertise of our sewage removal and cleaning services, in addition to the speed that we deliver the work, as well as our kindness demonstrated throughout the entire project helps make PuroClean your ideal damage remediation and restoration firm. We vow to do everything that’s needed and within our power to fully remediate properties in all the neighborhoods that make up our coverage areas.

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