Storms and heavy rain usually flood basements with water, but some homeowners on the city'snorth side are dealing with flooding of a different kind on Wednesday.
At least 10 residents in Clintonville are cleaning up after a combination of storm water andranch salad dressing seeped into their basements.
SLIDESHOW: Images Of Flooding
According to the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency, rain from last week's storms combinedwith sewage from the T. Marzetti. Co. -- a salad dressing producer located on Indianola Avenue.
Sewage and storm water overwhelmed the city's storm sewer system, resulting in flooding atnearby homes.
"It's creamy-ranch- dressing-looking crap," resident Steven Maiken told the Columbus Dispatch."It's not toxic waste, but we did have to throw away a lot of stuff. We tried to wash it off overand over again."
Maiken, who lives on Northridge Road, told the newspaper that he reported the problem to theOhio EPA on Tuesday.
The Ohio EPA assessed the damage to basements and said residents should strip and bleach theirbasements, 10TV News reported.
According to the newspaper, the EPA suspects that pipes from nearby homes merge with pipes fromthe factory, but the pipes were not wide enough to handle excess water.
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