Chicago was built along a maze of rivers and marshy wetlands, and flooding has been an issue since Day One. Over the years, engineers have dreamt up some big, ambitious schemes to keep the water ...

SPOKANE, Wash. -- Months after a basement flood for some South Hill families, they are still in a state of devastation. The destruction came during a rain storm, causing their decades-old sewer system ...

Basement flooding due to stormwater backup in the sanitary sewers has been an issue in the southern portion of Parma Heights.

PARMA, Ohio -- For more than a decade, Parma has been targeting basement flooding throughout the city. Next up on the sanitary sewer project list is West 54th Street from Grantwood Drive to Luelda ...

MOLINE -- Bob Griffiths snakes out a sewer pipe once a day to help drain the small lake of raw sewage from the basement of his home. Mr. Griffiths and his girlfriend, Mandi Seefieldt, moved into the ...

Syracuse, N.Y. -- Kayla Deaver’s bed has been in her dining room for months. She and her baby, Amelia, had to stop sleeping in the bedroom because the smell was so bad. In the basement just beneath ...

A Hartford resident who alleges their home was flooded with several feet of water, sewage and wastewater has filed a lawsuit against the Metropolitan District Commission and the city seeking ...

Sue Bilz has lived in the same Covedale home on the West Side of Cincinnati most of her life. Her unfinished basement looks pretty typical at first glance, except almost nothing is on the floor. "This ...