Cheryl Wendt

Chronic Basement Flooding

5515 W. Melvina St.

“I used to — before getting a check valve installed — get 18 inches of sewer water every time we had a flood in the water, in the basement. First time was in 1997.”

Meet Cheryl. Cheryl Wendt has lived in Grasslyn Manor since 1991.

She has been flooded eight times before installing a check valve

did dirt grading around the house, new gutters,

FEMA claim, insurance claim

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In 2008 when

“My backyard looked like a lake. It was coming in like a waterfall underneath.”