Residential Sewer Back up Resource Kit

Prevention

• Help yourself – Help your neighbour, basement flooding prevention checklist – Prepared by the City of Ottawa
• Use approved protective plumbing device to reduce sanitary waste back up – Prepared by the City of Ottawa
• Residential Protective Plumbing Grant Assistance Program – Prepared by the City of Ottawa

Response and Recovery

• Homeowner’s guide to sewer surcharging and clean-up – Prepared by the City of Ottawa
• If your sewer backs up or your basement floods – Prepared by the City of Ottawa
• Self-help advice – Floods: what to do before and after – Prepared by the Government of Canada (in PDF only)