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Old 08-12-2013, 10:14 AM
 
Location: Houston, TX
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Other than being ugly, are there any issues with having these on your sidewalk? Smell? Flood issues ? Resale? Looked at a home that has two on front sidewalk. They are storm sewers for water runoff.
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Old 08-12-2013, 10:36 AM
 
Location: Breckenridge
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My dog likes to play frisbee with them.
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Old 08-12-2013, 11:32 AM
 
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Other than being ugly, are there any issues with having these on your sidewalk? Smell? Flood issues ? Resale? Looked at a home that has two on front sidewalk. They are storm sewers for water runoff.
One may be for storm sewer runoff, but why two? Maybe access to underground utilities? Check the covers for a name in the cast iron.

There's a manhole on my property line in the grassy strip between sidewalk and curb. Very occasionally, there is a odor, which indicates a problem with drainage. Call the City of Houston -- their crew will flush it out and put some kind of interior cover on it.

When Houston has several inches of rain in a short amount of time (once a year or so) and streets flood, wastewater can back up into the drainage system and overflow through holes in the manhole cover. Some people actually let their kids run and play in the nasty stuff!
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Old 08-12-2013, 01:32 PM
 
Location: Houston, TX
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Yeah I am surprised it has two. Never seen that before.
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Old 08-12-2013, 02:25 PM
 
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Storm sewer is on one side of the street, sanitary sewer is on the other. Manholes are placed where the sewer pipes change directions or make an intersection. If you have two by each other in your front yard (actually ROW) it just means the line is making a turn or an angle. Its no big deal. The odor is the sanitary sewer and unless they put a diaphragm cover under the mh lid you will always smell it. Its not necessarily a "problem" with drainage. Unless you live in a very old area.

You should be GLAD they are in the front yard because it makes work and repair easier. Just think of how you entire yeard would be destroyed if they had to dig up your sanitary sewer lines in your BACK yard.

Other utils, cable, phone, power etc are not used with manholes in (newer/modern) residential areas pretty much.
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Old 08-12-2013, 02:55 PM
 
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Other than being ugly, are there any issues with having these on your sidewalk? Smell? Flood issues ? Resale? Looked at a home that has two on front sidewalk. They are storm sewers for water runoff.
Its better to have the ditches in Houston than the storm sewers as they will hold more water during the floods that happen about every seven years.
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Old 08-12-2013, 10:20 PM
 
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Its better to have the ditches in Houston than the storm sewers as they will hold more water during the floods that happen about every seven years.
The home I grew up in has ditches and it has never even came close to flooding in my lifetime. My grandma has owned the house since the 70's and said it has never flooded in that neighborhood. Ditches are ugly but useful.
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