Aging Sewer Pipes Add to Flooding Problems in Glenview

Even though Glenview and Northbrook have worked to maintain public sewer lines, aging clay pipes laid when most homes were built in the 1930s and 1940s are adding to flooding woes in the area, Chicago Tribune reports.

Most communities are finding that 80 percent of the problem is in aging private pipes where groundwater finds a way in but the public is bearing the consequences, “If one homeowner has a leaking service, then it gets into the public system; it can make the sanitary main … back up,” Joseph Kenney, Glenview’s director of capital projects, told the newspaper.

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