Utah couple frustrated by finger-pointing after sewage flooded their master suite

RIVERDALE, Utah — A younger couple says everyone seems to be pointing the finger after a horrifying quantity of sewage flooded their new house in Riverdale.

A few of it got here from their neighbors.

“It’s so surreal, , as a result of we simply moved in a month and a half in the past,” stated Chase Brunner. “We haven’t even made our second mortgage fee but.”

Brunner and his girlfriend, Brittani Roe, stay on the finish of a cul-de-sac not removed from 300 West and Laker Method in Riverdale.

It began with a number of inches of sewage that backed up into their bathe on Friday, then it acquired worse from there. Now, three households can’t flush their bathrooms or take showers.

“It fashioned a complete river, like of all of the black water,” Roe stated. “You would see all of the clumps simply the place the water was flowing.”

The injury of their basement master bedroom is intensive and will quantity to tens of 1000’s of {dollars}, Brunner stated.

A catastrophe cleanup firm lower out a number of the carpet. He stated the drywall additionally must be changed, and garments and couches reek of sewage.

The couple known as a plumber and discovered their house shares a lateral sewer line with two different houses.

“All three of us, technically, that’s our personal line that’s clogged,” Roe stated.

Their house is the bottom. So their neighbors’ sewage was backing up into their master bedroom.

Plumbers advised them the clog is definitely greater than 100 ft away, close to a manhole in a yard two doorways down. Roe stated that fourth neighbor doesn’t need their yard to be dug up. The neighbor wouldn’t speak to KSL TV.

The couple has had bother getting assist from Riverdale metropolis officers. They didn’t return our calls and emails.

For now, Brunner and Roe are utilizing the restroom at a close-by gasoline station and taking showers at a member of the family’s home. They’re cash-strapped after shopping for on this sizzling housing market as they struggle to determine repairs.

“We didn’t wish to, however we had drained our total financial savings only for the down fee of this home,” Roe stated, “and so now with this… there’s not far more we may put into it.”

The couple stated they’ve proof that the earlier house owner knew concerning the sewer issues and didn’t disclose them. Brunner and Roe have additionally checked with their house owner’s insurance coverage, however they’ve been advised they don’t have any protection for this concern because the clog is just not positioned on their property.

A few crews have been within the neighborhood Tuesday night, nevertheless it’s nonetheless unclear how this concern shall be resolved and who pays for it.

“Nobody will assist us repair the clogged pipes, so at any second, we are able to again up once more,” Roe stated.