Q My duplex has a common basement divided by a wall. My neighbor has installed a sump and a pump, but some water finds its way across his floor and under the wall into my space. I don’t mind that, but ...

Starting sometime soon, anyone selling a home or business property in the Western Lake Superior Sanitary District service area will need to certify that their sump pumps and foundation drains aren't ...

MILLBURN – If your sump pump is spilling water out onto the street, the word from Town Hall is that you need to get it fixed, pronto. Code Enforcement Officer Dave Cuomo has proposed that the township ...

The City of Charlottetown is cracking down on residents whose sump pumps are hooked up illegally. Many houses have pumps connected to the city's sewer line. That means water from heavy rain can ...

In a recent column, a newly minted Jersey Shore homeowner asked for help making his damp abode drier. He said he’d been told that building code mandated that the vapor barrier be up against the floor ...

We have been having some awful storms recently and lots of people around us have been losing power. My neighborhood has been good as all our power lines are buried except for a larger (array???) or ...

Flood-fighting devices such as backflow valves and sump pumps are “absolutely necessary” these days in rain-ravaged Windsor, says city building inspector Dwayne Kenney. Kenney, a licensed plumber with ...