Cincinnati flash flooding: MSD responding to hundreds of sewer backup reports

Two weeks after historic flash flooding struck the Tri-State, Cincinnati is still recovering as the Metropolitan Sewer District (MSD) works through hundreds of sewer backup reports and Hamilton County’s emergency management agency continues to assess damage.

MSD has received more than 1,800 reports since the storms and more than 900 of them have met eligibility requirements for cleaning services through the agency’s sewer backup program.

“Those are people calling us saying they have water in their basement or they believe they have a sewer backup, and then we are going out and investigating those,” MSD Director Diana Christy said…

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