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Steet Flooding, A Bio-Hazard?

In addition to the traffic safety hazards already discussed that arise from flooding from backed up sewers, please consider this photograph of sewer water erupting during a recent rain from beneath a manhole cover in the Merrick Mall parking lot. It is very disquieting to wonder what kinds of disease organisms may be in that spreading sewer water as we and our children are passing by.

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