Just in case you thought the end of winter in Western New York would also be the end of the wild weather we typically get, you were wrong. The last few days have been a wild ride for people in the Buffalo area on the weather front, with strong winds, dangerous thunderstorms, golf-ball-sized hail, tornadoes, and flooding all over the region.
That wild weather leaves its impact in many ways that you can see and some ways that you don’t normally see. One of those ways has been the amount of raw and untreated wastewater that has been dumped into the region’s waterways. It’s not uncommon for our wastewater treatment plants to be overwhelmed when several inches of heavy rain hit the region, often causing water to back up into our basements as sewer pipes in the neighborhoods get overloaded.
KEEP READING: Rainstorms Cause Flooding and Sewer Backups All Over Western New York…