April Showers No Problem for Shorewood Sewers

Village Manager Chris Swartz said the village hasn’t received any reports of basement backups as of Friday afternoon, despite more than four inches of rain falling since Monday in the village.

Swartz said there hasn’t been the type of rainfall that typically would cause issues with sewer backups or street flooding.

“The intense rains are what usually cause problems,” he said. “We have always been able to handle this type of rainfall.”

The village has done metering during the week of April showers — meaning they are monitoring how much rain has fallen and how the sewers are responding.

Shorewood has been working to revamp its sewer system via its $34 million comprehensive plan, after torrential rains caused flooding problems and sewer backups in July 2010.