Sewage Cleanup and Sanitation in Santa Rosa, CA

Toilet and sewer line backups could result in sewage entering your basement or other portions of your home or business. This dark, thick water is very hazardous and contains many dangerous contaminants. These contaminants are made up of pathogens, bacteria and viruses and present health risks and illness dangers if people or animals experience exposure. Finding a remedy to these problems ASAP is highly important, as is removing sewage from your home or business. Having information of what may cause sewer backups may help you avoid a hazardous incident in your home or basement. Please see this list of things that may aid in stopping sewage backups that could occur in your home or business:

Why Sewage Backup Occurs

• Clogged Sewer Line – Sewage backs up into your home or business when your drain lines or main sewer lines become blocked. For example: if one commode starts a sewage backup, the connected drain and/or many toilets and the main line may become clogged.
• Imposing Tree Roots – Trees with large strong plentiful roots have the potential to grow into and around pipes, even demolishing sewer pipes. Tree roots can extend out to a long distance and wreak havoc on your pipes, causing a sewer backup. Keep an eye out for roots near your main sewer lines or septic tank area to prevent damage.
• Aging & Damaged Sewer Lines – Aging sewer lines, pipes, drains and septic systems can fail by slowly cracking and failing over time – causing sewage backups, water filled homes, and basements full of sewer water. Keep in mind the age of your home and community and search for these potential problems.
• Heavy Rainfall Amounts – Heavy amounts of rainfall can overwhelm your main storm and sewer mains. If it happens that your public system can’t handle large rainfall levels, the flooding can make its way into the sewer lines linked to the mainline, and put your home or business in a potentially dangerous risk of sewer backup. There is a risk of genuine health issues when in and around flooding waters in your region that occurs from flooding in rivers and streams, hurricanes, and other associated weather, when water combines with sewage, contaminants and chemicals. When wading in these waters use extreme caution, and also when the water decreases and starts drying. Organic matter that is dried out can then convert to be aerosolized and present a threat of breathing in these contaminants. Be sure to use proper PPE to protect against these dangerous risks.

Our Santa Rosa, CA process for sewage cleanup and sanitation

Our process for cleaning and remediation of Category 3 water, also known as sewer and contaminated water backup clean up according to the IICRC industry standards, is as follows:

1. Ensuring safety for all personnel and occupants by placing restrictions on site access to remediation personnel only in order to prevent health related occurrences.

2. Health & safety survey and complete building assessment.

3. Ensure all remediation personnel are outfitted with the proper personal protection equipment (PPE). This can include but is not limited to:

• Full face respirator
• Nitrile and cut resistant gloves
• Rubber boots with steel toes and shank
• Entire body suit protection

4. Create engineering controls, firm barriers if suitable to prevent cross-contamination.

5. Removing any type of potential safety risks if at all possible.

6. Clearing the jobsite of all bulk water, soil, and contaminates.

7. Removing any and all porous and semi-porous contaminated articles that are unable to be restored, which includes but is not limited to:

• Hardwood flooring
• Padded and upholstered items
• Gypsum board
• Carpet, rugs, pad, or underlayment
• Vinyl flooring and underlayment

8. Implement cleaning methods and use of EPA certified biocides and antimicrobials

9. Physical cleaning of all remaining structure areas

10. We recommend using a third-party Certified Industrial Hygienist (CIH) to implement clearance testing to ensure the building is returned to a safe pre-loss condition for health and safety.

11. All materials touched by water to be dried and returned to pre-loss state

12. All equipment used on the project to be cleaned after restoration completion

13. Disposal of all remaining materials removed from the project

Call PuroClean for Professional Sewage Cleanup in Santa Rosa, CA!

Contact the PuroClean specialists for sewage removal, cleaning and restoration. Whether it’s from a blocked toilet, flood waters or sewer pipe backups to take care of the problem for your home or business. PuroClean uses the newest, state-of-the-art equipment and cleansing tools to completely and effectively clean and salvage all affected items and structures.

The high standard of our sewage eradication and cleaning services along with the speed in which we complete the work, and the absolute care we practice throughout the process make us your complete flood damage restoration and remediation company. PuroClean vows to do whatever it takes to rescue, clean and restore all properties that are within our service regions.

*Not all PuroClean offices provide sewage cleanup and sanitation cleaning services.