Whats your opinion ?

[Hoody]

Lets say a toilet clogged. No fecal matter in the toilet. One of the seals in the tank malfunctioned. That resulted in a few gallons of water in the bowl backing up, onto the tile floor. The bowl drained, but the fresh tank kept running, eventually overflowing, and flowing down the walls and ceilings on the third floor of a split level house.

My question to you all is would you consider that cat 2, or 3 ? The majority of the water that affected the area was fresh, but it did indeed mix with water from the bowl. The loss was responded to within 2 hours. We didn't mitigate this loss, but after I hear your responses i'll chime in as to why i'm inquiring.

 

[Desk Jockey]

We would treat it as 2, with any amount of fecal matter changing it to a 3.

Fecal stew is fecal stew with any amount.

 

[kmdineen]

Over flows from toilet bowls on the room side of the trap with some urine but no feces is a category 2, IICRC S500 third edition 9.6 Determining the Category of Water page 34