Sewer

SYRACUSE — Mayor Jamie Nagle thinks the stipend involved with any city representative serving on a local waste or sewer board should be removed.

LAYTON — It’s a “crappy” job, but someone’s got to do it.

That was the joke going around the city council meeting Thursday night when the council appointed Michael Bouwhuis as representative on the North Davis Sewer Board.

“It has been one of the responsibilities I’ve had an interest in,” said Bouwhuis. “I look forward to being very active on that board. It’s important for the residents of Layton to be represented there, since they pay fees.”

PRICE -- Authorities say they suspect foul play after a man's decomposing body was found in a sewer manhole near Price.

PLAIN CITY -- The city has had Poo-Gloos for four years now, but the wastewater treatment devices are having a problem with a sluggish sewer line and will need to be replaced, Councilman Brent White said.

HARRISVILLE -- Homeowners looking for help with sewage backflow problems were told they are on their own and Harrisville cannot help them fix the problem.

On Aug. 1, Liberty Avenue resident Millissa Ferguson woke up to find that the previous night's storm had brought more than just water. Her son found filthy brown liquid flooding the basement from sewage pouring into homes.

The overflow occurred when the Weber County main sewer line was overridden with water from the July 31 storm. Kent Jones, a consulting engineer, said the storm was the type that happens about once every hundred years.

HUNTSVILLE -- Mountain Sewer Corporation, which is the focus of a state complaint, is under new ownership, according to Weber County Commissioner Jan M. Zogmaister.

Ray Bowden, a member of the Wolf Creek Sewer District board, recently acquired Mountain Sewer from Dr. Ronald Catanzaro, said Zogmaister.