The installation of a new sewer manhole at the east/west connection on Virginia Place makes it more than just a sag in the sewer. This sag has been intentionally engineered by the city of Albert Lea to at least one foot below a proper slope from Virginia Place to James Avenue.

To correct the city of Albert Lea’s engineered sag would require a small lift station or pumping station for six properties because achieving a proper slope would require the manhole to be raised one foot above the sewer main that goes to South Virginia Place.

The city of Albert Lea has engineered a waste water sewer system that doesn’t even come close to meeting any minimum standards and puts residents at severe risk of thousands of gallons of raw sewage flooding the properties on South Virginia Place.

Troy Christensen 

Albert Lea