FOND DU LAC – To say that it’s been a wet week is an understatement.

The area has received measurable precipitation every day since Monday.

Rain, snow, sleet…we have seen it all.

Fond du Lac was one of the communities getting its fair share of the wet weather.

The city got 1.8 inches of rain Tuesday into Wednesday.

The wastewater treatment plant in Fond du Lac normally treats about six and a half million gallons of water a day before discharging it into Lake Winnebago. But Wednesday the plant handled almost 36 million gallons, two million over its daily capacity.

“That just overloaded the collection system,” said operations manager John Leonhard.

It meant partially treated waste water was mixed with fully treated water heading into the lake.

While two million gallons of partially treated wastewater might sound like a lot, in a lake that holds nearly 700 billion gallons of water, Leonhard says there is no reason to be concerned.

“This is nothing, we’re still putting cleaner water in the lake than what is in the lake and what is coming down the rivers.”

The water diversion did still cause a few minor basement backups in the city. But nothing veterans of the 2008 flooding couldn’t handle.

“The city guys were right there on the money, I had to sweep water down my drain, that was it, there was no pooling water. I got done sweeping it and it didn’t come back,” said Tom Wright of Fond du Lac.

Leonhard says water levels are slowly declining and doesn’t expect the city to have the problem again anytime soon.