Eric Bordas told WJAC-TV that he’s been using a pump to remove water from his basement that flooded Sunday morning.

"I woke to find 19 inches of water had been in the basement,” said Bordas. “It flooded me out; cost me a brand new furnace."

Bordas blames the chronic flooding on a terra cotta sanitary sewer line under his basement that was capped off over a year ago.

Borough officials told WJAC-TV that the local water table has risen and that the old line was properly capped, but Bordas insists there were problems with the project.

“There’s nothing more I want than to have this go away,” said Bordas. “It’s affected heating, our electric bills, our time. I’ve lost a year and a half with my daughter. She’s 12 now; she was 10 when I started.

Bordas showed WJAC-TV video from an underground pipe camera and toilet paper he says was pumped from his basement, but Philipsburg Borough Manager Jan McDonald said the water tests showed no signs of sewage.

“There will always be questions because there’s water and we just don’t know where it’s coming from. We have to do something because we can’t keep pumping it into the street,” said McDonald. “Did somebody screw up? That’s why we ran the camera up there, to find out if something was missing. It was not conclusive that anything was missing at all.”

Two borough council members and local Rep. Scott Conklin recently visited Bordas’ basement to see the problem first-hand.

"Clearly it's our stance that any time there's a situation like this, we like to be there and stand ready to help the local municipality deal with the problem,” said Rep. Conklin’s chief of staff Tor Michaels.

Borough officials told WJAC-TV that they are doing as much as they can to fix the problem and are urging council members to meet with the borough engineer to find a fix.