Cicero Wastewater Superintendent Matthew Dotson is asking residents to refrain from flushing the following types of products down toilets: Disposable towels, baby wipes and feminine hygiene products.
Although many of these products claim to be safe to flush, they do not have time to break down in the sanitary sewer system before reaching the lift station.
As a result, they have been clogging pumps in the lift station that serves the Cicero area. This dramatically increases labor and maintenance costs and will eventually result in costly pump failures.