Case in point: Impact of leaking laterals

A Milwaukee-area community is surprised at the volume of I&I from pipes on the private side of the line

A simulation of a minor rainstorm found that four times more stormwater would leak into sewer laterals in several neighborhoods in the City of Wauwatosa than into the city sewers under the streets, according to an engineering consultant’s report described in The Milwaukee Journal...

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