Often in the Chicago area, municipal sanitary sewers to become overloaded with more volume than they can handle, during heavy rainstorms. This can result in sewer backup in low lying drains including basements! Sewage contaminated water map be pushed through toilets, showers, or floor drains potentially creating a toxic environment in homes. Read more about out Sewer Backup Prevention Promotion.
The nonprofit Center for Neighborhood Technology http://www.cnt.org/ (CNT), a Chicago-based think-and-do tank that researches, pilots, and advocates solutions that increase sustainability, recently held an event to introduce its refocused water program. CNT CEO Kathryn Tholin and CNT Water Program Director Harriet Festing framed the evening’s panel discussion by describing the organization’s approach to developing sustainability solutions for a wide range of water resource issues. Read More
Earlier in 2011, Perma-Seal and several other contractors and companies took part in a home adaptive renovation project in Oak Lawn, Illinois, (sponsored by Salute, Inc) to honor an injured Marine Yuriy and his wife Aimee.
Yuriy is a young Marine veteran who served two terms in Iraq and Afghanistan and is the recipient of many awards, combat action ribbons and medals. Upon returning home and making plans to be married, he had an appendix attack. He was sent to a military hospital for a routine appendectomy where complications during surgery led to him in a coma for two and a half months. He is now suffering with an Anoxic brain injury, which has left him unable to speak, visually impaired, unable to walk and has spasticity in both hands. As soon as Yuriy came out of the coma Aimee decided to marry him and care for him.