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SAGINAW, Mich. (WNEM) - With continuous rain on Wednesday, sump pumps across mid-Michigan are working overtime. If your sump pump is working like it should, water should stay away from your basement.

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 ...

The problem of how to move standing water from one place to another preoccupied scientists for thousands of years. Historians report that even the great Greek mathematician and inventor Archimedes ...

When heavy seasonal rains start pooling around your house, the last thing you want is to be humming Johnny Cash’s “Five Feet High and Rising” as water creeps up in your basement. But that may be the ...

Twelve thousand homes so far have used the city’s Basement Flooding Protection Program to pay for such flood-fighting measures as sump pumps and backflow valves. “The program has been more successful ...

Q: At some point, laundry and a half bath were installed in the daylight basement of our home. The pump is inside a cabinet between the laundry and bathroom. Often, there is an odor in those areas.