Things started with this... staff were met in the morning with an awful smell. A Bad Smell. Investigation showed sewage backup into the crawlspace of the KAXE studios. Opening the door to the basement crawlspace I found the floor flooded with fecal material. Plumber called. This is what the crawlspace looked like:
Finally got the line open enough for shit to flow downhill but both the plumber and I knew there was something going on, suspecting some directional boring that had gone on in the summer of 2018. We tried televising the line but his camera was foggy and he had a new video head on order. We will televise again when the new head comes in....
With new camera head in place and a another blockage, it took about 4 hours to finally get the line cleared of fecal laden water to get this video of the Ah Ha moment:
And a still shot:
Uff ta. A big, beautiful orange fiber line right in the middle of our sewer line from the building to the street sewer. Distance put it right at the boulevard where the directional boring took place. While I won't go into the details of the negotiation, I'll just say that some fiber intallation contractors would dig this up immediately with their own crew to correct this, and others will want proof that it is indeed their line. Meaning we pay for the digging and if it is their's, they'll reimburse. We had the latter. So this:
Some time later, the line repaired:
Reimbursement is still in process but it looks like we'll have over $20K in cleanup and restoration costs.
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