This is off topic, but I need help/advice.
Well it has started again. Three weeks ago we start getting a gasoline smell in the bathroom anytime the in rains or water is running(sinks, toilet). This has going on for the last two and a half weeks. My first thought was that it was coming form my yard art. We called the fire dept out and they took readings. They said that they didn't pick anything up, but they could smell it. A couple days later it gets real bad, so we call the fire dept. out again. This time they get some readings coming form our drains. They told they called the city wastewater dept to come out and check it out and find the source. Since we have a 1 1/2 year old they tell us not to stay at the house. Granted this is at 10:30 p.m.. We were told to wait and city what the city crew said and then find somewhere to stay. We waited until 12:30, no city crew, so we leave. I miss work the nest to figure this out. Get the run around from the city all day. Finally get ahold of the head of public works and he tells me that the guy cam out at 11:00 and could not find a sewer gas smell in the main drain a half block away so he went home. This guy promises to follow up and get something done. The next day after work I stop at the gas station 2 blocks south of me and the Fire dept and City crews have all the manholes off in the parking lot. I follow them around for a while like an asshole and they finally find a fuel filter on a main pump leaking. Problem fixed, sort of. I have live here for 10 years and have always had problems with the sewers. First the gas station across the street from this one had tanks leaking and lost close to 2,000 gallons in the drains. We literally had gasoline coming up in our drains(wish I had that now at $3.00 a gallon). That guy conventally went bankrupt. We were forced to leave the house for a week then. At that time my daughter was 2. Then after that the city's raw sewage would start coming up in my back yard through the clean out. I have pictures of the **** fountain in my back yard. The city came out 3 times and cleaned the toilet paper/**** out of my yard and put in a backflow preventer. Problem solved, sort of. For the next 5 years no problems other than if it rains we can't flusht the toilets or drain the sinks. I refuse to let the kids play in the back yard because of the sewage that was in there. I'm ready to move now. I need to get my kids into a healthy home. I am having a hard time finding a lawyer that wants to challenge the city on the issue of the drains. What would you guys do? Anyone know a lawyer in the Tulsa area that will take this on? Sorry for the long thread I am just sick of it now.
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