Article 4NZQ7 Michigan: Two Million Gallons of Untreated Sewage Spill Into Flint River

Michigan: Two Million Gallons of Untreated Sewage Spill Into Flint River

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From MLive, Months after dire warnings, Flint spills 2 million gallons of raw sewage into river:

The city dumped an estimated 2 million gallons of untreated sewage into the Flint River Sunday, Aug. 18, just months after officials warned wastewater infrastructure was fast approaching a "critical point."

A partial report filed by the city with the state Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy on Tuesday, Aug. 20, says a "flash flood event" overflowed primary settling tanks at the city's wastewater treatment plant on Beecher Road, sending raw waste onto the ground and into a storm sewer drain that discharges directly to the river....

Earlier this year, the city sought a waiver from the Genesee County Health Department, requesting that it be allowed to skip testing river water for bacteria after sewage spills in cases in which the discharge comes from its retention basin.

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