Routine Sanitary Sewer Cleaning
Starting August 14th, the City of Ottawa Water Services is performing routine sanitary sewer cleaning in Tanglewood-Hillsdale . The City conducts routine cleaning of sewers to ensure that wastewater from homes and businesses is efficiently transported to the Robert O. Pickard Environmental Centre, the City’s treatment facility. The effected streets and courts are on the City of Ottawa website.
During the cleaning process, the use of high-pressure water creates air pockets inside the sewer pipe that generally escape with no impact to a property’s internal plumbing. In some cases, this air pressure can only escape through the sewer connection between the house and the City’s sewer system, via the internal plumbing vent. If this passage is blocked, air pressure may escape through a toilet or drain. This can result in the release of odours, or on rare occasions sewage contaminated water, into a home or business – known as a “blow-back.” For more info on how to prevent this, refer to the City’s website.