Storm Water

Boone, Iowa---Boone City Administrator Luke Nelson says he expects Boone to join many other communities pushing to eliminate sump pump discharges from the city's sanitary sewer system. Nelson told the City Council Monday that many cities are starting to vigorously pursue the problem. Many residents with sump pumps and footing drainage, discharge the water into the sanitary sewer system, causing massive flows at the sewer plant and even resulting in sewage backups into basements. Nelson told the Council that many of the actions they will be asked to consider will be controversial.