CLINTONVILLE, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) – Louis Handy tells FOX 11 flooding isn’t new in Clintonville.
“Within the last four or five years with our basement being flooded and this year was the worst.”
He’s lived here for seven years.
“It was like little pinholes, it was coming through our basement.”
He says the city’s recent rainfall has, once again, caused damage to his home.
It happens so often that Handy and his family have a habit of preparing for the worst.
“We try to keep everything up a foot off the floor. And everything that’s on the floor is like a plastic bin, so when the water does, it doesn’t damage anything.”
It’s the same situation for the city’s administrator.
“I walked down in my basement and there was literally an inch of water all over my basement floor,” said Sharon Eveland.
Eveland posted on Facebook Saturday morning asking that residents try not to use their water.
That’s because the more water people use, more waste flows into the city’s waste-water management system.
It usually takes on 600,000 gallons per day.
“We treated almost 1.8 million since it started raining on Friday. So about 1.2 million of that was rainwater,” explained wastewater manager, David Tichinel.
Taking on that much water is what caused backups in people’s basements.
Now the water waste management has to adjust to taking in that much water.
“So this is going to be a couple of day process,” Tichinel said. “When this gets upset like this it takes a couple of days for a wastewater plant to come back.”
Since then, Eveland says the wastewater management site is no longer at risk of a waste spill.
