WASTOP PROTECTING A HOME IN LEWISTON, NEW YORK, USA - WAPRO ACCESS Location: Lewiston, New York, USA Customer: City of Lewiston PROBLEM: A section of Upper Mountain Road in Lewiston, New York was repeatedly experiencing basement oodings. This was the result of having a combined wastewater and stormwater sewer in an area prone to ooding from the Niagara River. Jeffery Ritter from the city of Lewiston met with Bob Wiltshire from Koester Associates, and they discussed the bene
ts of installing WaStop inline elastomeric check valves in order to prevent backows and ooding. Jeff suspected that the WaStop might be just what Lewiston needed. SOLUTION: In 2013, a packaged residential WaStop unit was installed in a private home in an area where previous oods had caused more than $4,000 of da

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