Are Dayton’s Sewers Sound?
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August 8, 2013
Mayor Craig George with the city's sewer jet trailer purchased in 2006 as part of Dayton's sewer maintenance fleet. Almost a third of the city's sewer budget is devoted to maintenance.
DAYTON - Patricia Becker remem- bers the smell like it was yesterday.
On an early fall morning three years ago, she went to her son's home to get it ready for his return from a week at the hospital in Walla Walla. When she opened the door, an unpleasant odor struck her nostrils and she discovered that raw sewage was coming into the house on East Patit through two floor drains in the basement.
"It went all the way up to the wall," Becker, who owns 306 East Patit, said in an in- terview this weekend.
To Becker, the stench wasn't completely unfamil- iar. Sewage had come up through the drains a ye...
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