Watching Dirty Movies at City Hall

Got to watch some "dirty movies" at City Hall the other day. We had some of our sanitary sewers televised, so we could look for cracks, leaks, and groundwater inflow. Good news is, we found no snakes or alligators in the sewers that got televised.

The areas that were televised this time were along Samson Street. Our city's main trunk line runs under the north/south part of Samson, on its way to the sewer plant. We noted that the fall isn't much through there, so wasterwater tends to stand thru that part. Not a huge deal, but it does cut down the capacity of the pipe some.

We found a few spots on the east/west part of Samson where ground water was trickling in. That is the kind of thing we are looking to fix, as when it rains, that is that much more water we have in the system, which could lead to more backups. Also, we are obligated to treat it, so if we can fix that, it doesn't strain our wasterwater plant as much.

So it was interesting to see what it looks like from the inside of a sewer line, and the connections to people's houses and all that. I found one on Youtube. This isn't ours, but this is what it looks like.