IF YOU NOTICE AN OFF-TASTE SOON . . .
Posted: September 22nd, 2009, 1:37 pm
. . . in the taste of your oysters and fish caught along the Apalachicola River and from the bay blame it on Atlanta (again).
Atlanta News 10:29 a.m. Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Sewage dumped into Chattahoochee as plant floods
By Staff
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Rising water from the Chattahoochee River flooded out Atlanta's sewer treatment plant on Tuesday, causing a massive dump of raw sewage into the rain-swollen river.
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City officials said the river rose some 12 feet outside it banks, when water flooded into the R.M. Clayton plant in northwest Atlanta near Cobb County. The rising river also flooded out sewage pump stations nearby, causing them to fail as well.
Atlanta officials were trying early Tuesday to assess the damage and see how quickly they could restore the plant and other facilities to working order.
The R.M. Clayton plant is the largest in Georgia with capacity to treat 240 million gallons of sewage a day. It's also connected to the city's controversial combined sewage overflow tunnel, which was designed to hold about 177 million gallons of sewage and rainwater.
Atlanta News 10:29 a.m. Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Sewage dumped into Chattahoochee as plant floods
By Staff
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Rising water from the Chattahoochee River flooded out Atlanta's sewer treatment plant on Tuesday, causing a massive dump of raw sewage into the rain-swollen river.
Related
City officials said the river rose some 12 feet outside it banks, when water flooded into the R.M. Clayton plant in northwest Atlanta near Cobb County. The rising river also flooded out sewage pump stations nearby, causing them to fail as well.
Atlanta officials were trying early Tuesday to assess the damage and see how quickly they could restore the plant and other facilities to working order.
The R.M. Clayton plant is the largest in Georgia with capacity to treat 240 million gallons of sewage a day. It's also connected to the city's controversial combined sewage overflow tunnel, which was designed to hold about 177 million gallons of sewage and rainwater.
