Southdown's - city's main sewage\drainage are causing back flow problems

I believe i am in a pickle! Its a long story but would appreciate any opinions and information.

About two months ago i had a gate installed. A day after the fencing company installed the gates, I notice water start to build up by one of the post. Of course I thought the post somehow cracked a water line or something. After two days of them saying they would come look at it, the water is starting to really build up and it smells like sewage. It gets worse every time we run the washing machine or taking showers\baths, more water surfaces around the post but its now trickling to back yard.

I immediately call Roto Rooter because the fence company was taking their sweet time to make repairs, etc.

He comes out and digs around the post where the water is coming from. He explains to me that the fence company is a bunch of assholes from dropping a post on top of a cover cap. He says they should have never dropped the post where they did because its in the way of things. He unscrews the cover cap and sewage backs up and over flows. He flushes the line and all is well.

Two days later while during a heavy rainstorm, we have the washing machine running. She just finished a bath and the tub is draining and all hell breaks loose. The pipe in my utility room for the washing machine starts overflowing and it stinks. It finally quits after 5 or so minutes. I call Roto Rooter again.

The guy comes back out and runs video this time. The video shows that my terracotta pipe is needing to be replaced because there are roots running through the joints and shite. The video also shows that the clog\backflooding is originally starting at the cities pipes. He says there pipes are just as bad. In order to replace my sewage pipes, the city must make repairs on their pipes. The city came out that day as well and ran the "jetters" to flush out the sewage line. It also looked like they were going to make repairs but it was lip service

Roto Rooter suggested to leave the cover cap off because when a clog or backflow happens again, its best to let it overflow in your yard versus your house.

Well after that rainstorm yesterday, it did it again. My back yard flooded. I didnt see TP or shite but just mainly all the rain water i think.

I re-contacted city again today who sent people out, who were running video because they are aware that I have an open sewage line basically and that I cant replace my sewage line until they fix theirs.

Roto Rooter mentioned that Southdowns is frequently experiencing this. Most of the pipes are terracotta and they are needing to be replaced. He said that the city's pipeline is fricked as well. I believe with Rouzan being at one end of my street, this is causing severe backflow. The city's pipeline is under the street so they will have to tear up the street.

The funny thing is that my neighbor had some plumbing problems like this. The city had to come tear up the road in order to fix it. We are talking about 20 ft apart.

I noticed another house about 3 houses down closer to Rouzan had a Roto Rooter truck in their driveway after rainstorm we had yesterday. The person from City said they just came from a house 2 blocks away where they were experiencing plumbing issues.





-- recap - I believe Southdowns is starting to experience plumbing and drainage problems due to Rouzan and old piping.