Hooked up new customer supplied water heater with customer supplied parts. Drain pan for water heater with pipe and fittings. Building 10 unit 7903. Kitchen stoppage. Auger from cleanout, sink was full of plaster and paint. Auger with 5/8 cable 50' several times and was only able to open partially. Camera inspected and found direct plaster in the pipe. Recommend pressure jetting to properly clear the line.

Company trouble shoot. Water closet is not draining. tried to auger and could not clean, pulled water closet and found roots going through pipe between flange and pipe. Hydro jet complete line with chain suter descaler. Cutting roots in small section and removing by suction 4' section of rows blocking complete pipe was remolded by running jetter through cleanout and bend . Also used retriever hand on cable machine. Replace flange water/closet and tank to bowl kit. Bolts recaulked w/c. Hydro jet complete building to end. Ran camera for video inspection, line is perfect. Septic pump out. 1 full load, pulled out lift station and dump the load in the lift station down the road. Cleared mainline stoppage through outside cleanout.

Dispatch pumper truck to pump out 12,000 gallons. 8" main line sewer restoration. Football size grease chunks were coming out into liftstation as a result of cleaning. Pump out another 7200 gallons of grease. Moved to city dump station. Run main line camera. Install approximately 600 square feet of drainfield. install new baffle tee filter. Also included in price is equipment rental. Permit application fee and system comes with ten year warranty. Installed new customer supplied compartment kitchen sink with 4 piece designer faucet. Reconnect 2" drainlines and p-trap assemblies. Diagnostic and exposure. Needs to be pumped out. Cabled through the 1 1/2 drain and found no stoppage. Ran video inspection from roof and found no obvious problems. Water drained great. Cabled main line with Spartan 100 machine up to clearing stoppage. ran video inspection after stoppage is cleared to verify condition of pipe. Pulled toilet to cable main line with general speed rooter 91 cable machine to clear line. Video inspection of main line reveals standing water in line. Access of ceiling reveals pipe collapse and leaking from 4" PVC drain lines. Requires immediate replacement to correct.

Jet an de-scale sanitary sewer line. Video inspect and locate all existing connections. Excavate through concrete expose 2' section of sanitary line. Install cure in place perma liner from stack to exit of building. Excavate floor drain and replace 2" trap. Concrete all areas of excavation. Broken main line. Ran cable 100 spartan to pop open main line found at 58' could not clear totally. Ran video inspection of line. Looks to be old cast iron very dirty and full of build up. Ran video locating to spot that looks to be broken by conduit.

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Agency To Store More Water - Swiftmud Agency to Store More Water: the executive order, effective through Sept. 30, allows the utility to take up to 19 percent of the flow of the river for drinking water. The utility's permit allows it to withdraw 10 percent of the river's flow during the wet season when the river is running at least 124 cubic feet per second. Swiftmud spokeswoman Robyn Felix said district studies show no adverse effects to the river because of the temporary higher withdrawals. Alison Adams, senior manager for Tampa Bay Water, said withdrawals from the river have been up and down since they began July 18. Since that time, she said, the river's flows have been declining.

Raytheon to begin clean-up of contaminated groundwater
St. Petersburg (Bay News 9) - Raytheon announced plans to start cleaning up groundwater contamination in St. Petersburg within 90 days. According to, the St. Petersburg Times, the announcement is the first step towards remedying the underground contamination in the Azalea neighborhood. Raytheon officials also said that samples taken from the ground surrounding Azalea Elementary School show no pollution. The company said it plans to pump out the contaminated water and then treat it before sending it to a sewage plant, a process known as "pump-and-treat." The Environmental Protection Agency said this process has been used to treat hundreds of Superfund sites. Officials said the clean-up could take up to five years to complete.

New Toilet Takes on No. 2 - Citrus County (Bay News 9) - A local inventor has made a new toilet designed to take the stench out of "John." Inventor Robert Smith says a trip to bathroom led him to spend several years, countless hours and thousands of dollars on his invention. "I decided to go wash up, walked into a bathroom and somebody literally annihilated the bathroom," Smith said. The VIP Odorless Toilet installs the same as most standard toilets. Smith's patented odor removal system fits in the back of the toilet, and operates on 12 volts. "We tried to simplify it, not too many moving parts, something that's easily rebuildable, something that has longevity and quality," Smith said. It's a simple concept. Before No. 2, the user lifts up on the handle that activates a small fan that begins to suck the stink directly into the sewer line through several holes in the bowl. The fan shuts off when the user flushes. Smith says users don't have to worry about germs or bacteria being spread because they're actually sucked down with the gas. Phil Nichols had one of the first VIP Odorless Toilets installed into his lumber companies bathroom. Nichols says he was skeptical at first. "We tried it and of course nobody wanted to be the first one to admit it -- wasn't me by the way -- but the feedback was good that it was doing its job," Nichols said. The VIP Odorless Toilet has just hit the market, but right now you can only buy it from the inventor.