Success
leads to complacency, from which follow disasters.
Along with his letter, Shembeda sent to us
some local newspaper clippings pertaining to this issue. One article from five
years ago reported five homes in one block with illegal hookups of storm water
connections to the sanitary sewer system. The article also referred to broken
drains, open lines, fixtures without traps, sewer vents leading into homes and
other plumbing atrocities uncovered by Shembeda.