From how to started the city caused it and there has been a number of backups at other home's on downs.

The city caused the problem they need to fix it

Two words: You Tube.

call the freakn city

In New Paltz, property owners who have municipal sewer (i.e. Village of New Paltz sewer) spent their own money to put back up preventer gates into their sewer lines at the street end where it connects to the mains. This only prevents New Paltz sewage from backing up into your washing machine, dish dryer or bathtub, but it also means that there is more raw, untreated sewage in the streets. Contact the town and they send you to the village, contact the village, and nothing is done except more new toilet hookup in new housing by new zoning variances. The county health department, the riverkeepers, the DEC, the state comptroller are all noticed, to no avail.

Mea culpa. See if you can get some gross photos to post. Let the assessor office know your neighborhood is the site of a public health nuisance in order to reduce your assessment, which will in turn, reduce your taxes until the problem is solved.

Any update? If it's fixed let's close the issue (and I really hope for all involved this has been fixed by now).

If it is still a problem - neighbors should rally to get the city to fix it and charge the homeowner. They can put a lein on the house.