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I tend to believe you. It"s the contractor, and probably with the $400K home owners backing. Not a good situation to be in. Years ago I lived in a Illinois town where they"d began putting in those kind of homes. And as an improvement, the town re-did the sewer system under miles and miles of road, running it out to those new homes and subdivisions past all of ours. We were down in the valley, they were up on a hill. The old sewer main was 3 foot in diameter, the new was 10 foot almost all the way, except at the very end where the adapted it down to the existing 3 foot pipe. First major rain came (and countless afterwards), and what do you suppose happened when all of that new, greatly increased volume amount of water came rushing down miles of 10 foot diameter pipe and suddenly hit that existing 3 footer? Sent manhole covers flying and turned that valley into a lake, flooding countless homes. Water made it to the edge of my front door, but luckily stopped. I sold before the next rain. Why"d it happen? Other than the moron that engineered it that way, and the town approving it, the town needed to keep the new home owners and contractor happy, and we in the valley had to flip the bill through bonds. The richer folks and contractors always get their way. Good Luck. Mark
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