978gray I feel for you. We've had a lot of water problems in our basement. One summer we were coming home from visiting our son in Michigan when we saw on the news that Fargo had a lot of rain & a lot of basements were getting water in. Yep, we came home to our whole basement covered in water not as deep as yours but it was a mess but at least not sewage. Now Fargo has made the national news once again with the flood this year. They're saying it should crest between 38' & 39' instead of the record 40.82 feet last year. I sure hope they are right. Good luck on your clean up.