Büyükçekmece Car Park Vacuum Truck

In Büyükçekmece this problem often turns up in the basement of a student house or in a dormitory car park. At the back entrance of a shop on a main street, grate pits full of sludge can let water spread towards the door. The crew first looks at the floor and the grates, talks the source through with you, and then starts work.

The housing complexes along Mimarsinan, Kumburgaz and Güzelce are made up of low-rise blocks and houses with gardens. Many of the houses were originally built as summer homes. They are now lived in all year round, but the pipes beneath them were laid for summer use. Further inland, apartment blocks and gated complexes stand side by side, so the cause of a blockage changes from one address to the next.

When the street line fills up in a downpour, water can come back up through the ground-floor drains. In that case the water and the sludge at the bottom need to be removed, and then a measure against backflow should be taken at the outlet of the line. The collected waste is carried in a closed tank and taken to an authorised discharge point. Having the grates and the drainage sump cleaned once before the rainy season starts reduces emergency calls for businesses and site management.