Record #:

22199

Author(s):

Ball, Billy

Abstract:

A 55-year-old sewer line near a waste-water treatment plant on the Haw River upstream from Burlington failed on January 27, 2014. By the time it was discovered and plugged two days later, 3.5 million gallons of liquid sewage had poured into the river which empties into the water supply for about 300,000 people. It is a state mandate that the public must be notified within forty-eight hours of a spill reaching state waters. Notification this time was seventy hours. Ball examines the slow notification time, why the pipe broke, and what the outcome to the break was.

Source:

Indy Week (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57), Vol. 31 Issue 11, Mar 2014, p8, il

Subject(s):

Manmade environmental disaster--Haw River; Sewage spills--Haw River