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What caused Peru sewer backups? City still working on it · Illinois Valley - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: What caused Peru sewer backups? City still working on it.
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  Speaker 1: Written by Tom Collins. This article is being read by
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  Speaker 1: an automated voice brought to you by Everlett. Why did
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  Speaker 1: sanitary sewers back up in some Peru neighborhoods. Workers still
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  Speaker 1: are trying to get to the bottom of it. There's
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  Speaker 1: more work to be done, but workers did identify a
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  Speaker 1: contributing problem. They phished items out of the sewer mains
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  Speaker 1: that had no business being there. Jeff King is appealing
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  Speaker 1: to residents to be mindful of what goes down the commode. King,
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  Speaker 1: the city's Public services manager, told the Peru Committee of
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  Speaker 1: the Whole Monday that workers flew into action after torrential
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  Speaker 1: rains over Independence Day weekend caused a slew of problems
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  Speaker 1: for Peru homeowners. One of the problems was stormwater backup.
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  Speaker 1: That's an issue the city will address, King said, but
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  Speaker 1: priority number one was figuring out why filth backed out
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  Speaker 1: of the sewer mains and into finish basements. King said
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  Speaker 1: he wishes he'd have been able to go door to
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  Speaker 1: door and provide an explanation. I didn't have the answers,
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  Speaker 1: King said, and he still doesn't, but it wasn't for
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  Speaker 1: lack of trying performance. Pipelining Ink of Ottawa was summoned
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  Speaker 1: to televise more than half a mile of lines along
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  Speaker 1: Church and Tenth Streets and Shooting Park Road. King said
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  Speaker 1: the company had workers on scene in about twenty minutes.
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  Speaker 1: Though the analysis didn't pinpoint the source of the backup,
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  Speaker 1: it's frustrating for us. King said workers did remove an
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  Speaker 1: array of foreign objects that shouldn't have been in the
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  Speaker 1: main mop heads, steel scouring pads, clothing, feminine products to
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  Speaker 1: name a few. You wouldn't believe how many kids underwhere
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  Speaker 1: we found. King said workers aren't finished yet with their probe.
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  Speaker 1: There are additional lines on North Peoria Street and Shooting
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  Speaker 1: Park Road to be surveyed, as well as sewer lines
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  Speaker 1: that stretch into fields west of the City's no getting
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  Speaker 1: into those until the crops are harvested. Meanwhile, the city
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  Speaker 1: is encouraging affected homeowners to invest in injector pits. That's
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  Speaker 1: a sealed basin fitted with a pump that collects wastewater
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  Speaker 1: and injects it into the system. Nobody can promise there
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  Speaker 1: won't be another incident, so city officials are encouraging affected
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  Speaker 1: homeowners to consider the investment. Alderman Andy Moreno was among
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  Speaker 1: the residents who had back up. He said he'd like
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  Speaker 1: to see a better response from the city going forward.
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  Speaker 1: The lack of communication from the city has a lot
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  Speaker 1: of residents frustrated. Moreno said, we did take action, but
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  Speaker 1: I'd like to see us as a city do a
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  Speaker 1: better job of being proactive and transparent instead of reactive