Sewage Cleanup and Sanitation in Kingston, NY

When sewer lines become blocked, the thick, black water that forms as sewage is a health danger, and is tremendously unsanitary as it contains contaminants such as pathogens, bacteria, and viruses that may pose a risk of extreme sickness illness if exposed to humans or animals. If you have a sewer backed up in your basement, or your toilet has backed up, you will need to fix it quickly, or you will end up with dirty water all over your home or business. Knowing what causes sewer backups, however, may help you prevent a hazardous occurrence in your basement, home or business. Following is a list of items that may help to prevent and deal with sewage backups:

Causes of Sewage Backup

• Heavy Rainfall – Excess rains can overwhelm your town or city’s storm sewer system. If this happens, the waste can expand into the attached sewer lines putting your home or business in possible compromise of water backflow. Increasing rivers and streams, hurricanes and other relevant events can force flood and sewage waters to blend and present genuine health related problems. You should be extremely cautious when wading in this sort of water, and even stay vigilant after the water recedes and dries up. It’s viable for the organic matter to turn aerosolized and respirable, meaning there’s a chance you could breathe it into your lungs. To protect from contact or risk of inhaling these contaminants, legitimate PPE should be worn at all times.
• Tree Roots – Trees can have strong roots that grow into water or sewer lines and crush or damage them. Damage to pipes and a sewage backup can also be caused by tree roots that aren’t even on your land. 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 Pipes – Older and aging sewage systems are susceptible to crumbling and cracking, causing sewer backups, flooded basements along with entire home flooding. The older your neighborhood or home may raise the chance of this type of damage occurring.
• Clogged and Blocked Drain Pipes – If your home or business’s main sewer line or drain pipes become fouled, sewage may back up inside the building. A good example is: if a single toilet causes a sewage blockage, the adjacent pipes connected to that toilet, or the main drain lines of more toilets, will also become backed up.

• Old and/or Damaged Lines – Older sewage systems have a tendency to fail and crack, leading to sewage backups and flooded dwellings full of sewage. If your home or neighborhood is older, the likelihood is greater that you’ll experience failing sewer lines than newer ones.
• Heavy Rain – Heavy and rapid rainfall can overwhelm your local storm sewer lines promptly. If these public sewers can’t deal with excess downpours, water can backup and progress into connected sewer lines. This can put your home or business at risk of backflow difficulties. Area flood waters from events like rising rivers and creeks, hurricanes, or any other weather events can cause clean water to merge with sewage water and other chemicals and harmful toxins that cause serious health ailments. Use extreme carefulness when moving on foot in this type of waste, but also remain cautious once it dries. The dried organic waste can turn aerosolized and turn respirable. Proper PPE needs to be worn at all times to prevent contact and risk inhaling polluted air.
• Blocked/Clogged Sewer Lines – A clogged pipe or sewer line can force sewage to back up into your home or business. If only one toilet becomes fouled, the sewage backup can spread into the sewer lines and disturb all linked toilets on that line.
• Tree Roots – Tree roots can wreak havoc on water and sewer lines. The roots from big trees can grow into and around the lines and damage them tremendously. If the roots around your property are not the problem, roots from closely located trees can grow under property lines and ruin your sewer line, causing a sewage issue. Be super aware of all tree roots close to your mainline sewer pipes and/or pipes leading to your septic tank.

Our Kingston, NY sewage cleanup and sanitation process

Our process for cleaning and restoration of Category 3 water, aka sewer and contaminated water backup clean up according to the IICRC industry standards, is as follows:

1. Ensure all personnel and occupants remain safe by limiting access to the site to restoration employees only in order to guard against any health-related issues.

2. Inspection of the building along with health and safety reviews.

3. Ensure all remediation personnel are equipped with the proper personal protection equipment (PPE). This can include but is not limited to:

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

4. Put engineering controls in place, as well as critical barriers if needed to stop any cross-contamination from occurring.

5. Completely getting rid of any potential safety risks if possible.

6. Disposal, removal of bulk flooding, soil, and contaminates.

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

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

8. Implement cleaning procedures and use of EPA approved biocides and antimicrobials

9. Physical 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. All materials affected by the flooding to be dried and returned to pre-loss dry standards

12. After completion of remediation – Cleansing of all equipment used

13. Disposal of all demo materials removed from the site

For the Perfect Professional Kingston, NY Sewage Cleanup Company, Call PuroClean Today!

Call the PuroClean specialists for sewage abatement, cleaning and restoration. Whether it’s from a stopped up toilet, flood waters or sewage drain backups to take care of the problem for your home or business. PuroClean uses the newest, state-of-the-art equipment and cleaning systems to completely and effectively clean and remediate all affected objects and structures.

The professional nature of PuroClean’s sewage removal and cleaning solutions, the speed in which we deliver them, and the compassion we demonstrate throughout the whole process make PuroClean your ideal damage restoration and remediation company. We pledge to do whatever it takes to restore and rescue properties in all the areas we serve.

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