It's amazing - the city/JCMUA is at fault for the antiquated sewer set up yet it is individuals/biz/churches/schools that get stuck with the bills when the sewer backs up.

Take that 80-100K and mulitply it by the hundreds (maybe thousands) of places where sewers backed up and you are looking at real money.

How does the city continually get away with this?

It was sewer back-up. They have been cleaning it up for weeks. Early on the estimate between the 3 churches was $80k to $100k in damage.

I saw a bunch of guys in those full body hazmat suits hauling stuff out of the basement yesterday. THey had the giant fans attached to garden level windows also.

Does anyone know if the water that church took came from actual storm surge or in through the sewer backing up? I'm 90% sure they were not actually in the flood line and thus the basement got sewage backup. I think the same thing happened at the main JC library on Jersey Ave a few blocks east.

When is the city going to come clean about the sewers? It seems that a lot of places where nowhere near the storm surge flooding, yet were damaged because the sewers backed up.

I am really surprised there aren't class action type lawyers combing this city to band together all the people/businesses who were damaged by sewer issues not actual flood waters.

Anyone with direct knowledge on the church, please post...