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Thanks all for your help and advice. These are the final pictures from the surgery. I closed it back up for now with a new sheet of gasket over to contain sewer gas in the pipe. Got an estimate on replacing with a cleanout and will decide on that vs cutting off the flap with a dremel or just...

I assume you’re referring to storm sewer. This application is for a sanitary sewer. But because the sewer company won’t address the problem of the line getting flooded with rain water I experience backups.

Thanks. It was exactly like you stated and I took the plunge to clean the gunk off. I had sent the image as is because the substance covering it was so hard that it took some chipping and that took time. I think it was tar or asphalt perhaps. It was indeed a valve underneath and after...

After confirming that the main line and the city/county portion of the lateral from our backwater valve to the street are clear, they camera'ed from the backwater valve back to the house. It revealed what is believed to ba another backwater valve in my basement. This is a 95+ year old house...