Ok so...Hold the Croutons please...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (July 2) - An Ohio EPA official said creamy ranch dressing mixed with sewage and storm runoff flooded the basements of at least 10 Columbus homes.

Alisa Jones, WBNS-10TV/div

Storm waters mixed with sewage and salad dressing left behind a mess on this basement floor of a Columbus, Ohio, home.

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Sewage from T. Marzetti Co., a Columbus-based salad dressing maker, overwhelmed the Columbus storm sewer system during heavy rains last week. A resident reported the problem to the state's Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday.

The EPA's Michael Dalton said the agency suspects that the factory's pipes merge with nearby homes, but aren't wide enough to handle extra water during a storm.

Neighbors have complained to the EPA over the last 30 years about discharges from the city sewage line that serves Marzetti into a creek.

Lowell Berry, the company's director of human resources, said Wednesday that the company had no comment.