Pamphlet on how to clean up sewer backups safely is available to the public. City Utilities puts priorities on stopping sewer problems. Plus Contact Line column seeking readers' questions and concerns about disconnecting their own downspouts. Task-force members leave a meeting with the mayor reassured. Sewer task-force members reach their days of reckoning with the high cost of fixing sewer problems.
Task force plans survey on sewers.
Weighing costs, benefits. Sewer task force members watch the numbers change as they analyze choices. Some OK with sewer rate rise. Members decide to keep working. Group ready to tell Mayor how to pull sewers out of the gutter.