SAVAGE, Md. — The equivalent of about 30 Olympic-sized swimming pools full of sewage spewed into a Chesapeake Bay tributary from a water treatment plant here as superstorm Sandy swept past the Washington area Monday night.
While Howard County officials have blamed electrical outages, and ordered an audit to find out what went wrong, government records show it wasn’t the first time that a power failure at the county-run plant set off a sewage spill.
On the afternoon of June 4, 2008, as thunderstorms rolled through the region, the Little Patuxent Water Reclamation Plant lost power, sending about 400,000 gallons of waste into the river, records show.
Yup. All the pollution in the bay is coming from personal septic tanks and chicken farms. Things like this have nothing to do with it.
ReplyDeleteSalisbury says rain makes their sewage spill into wicomico river. Over and over and over.
ReplyDeleteThere were college students here from Baltimore taking water samples from ditches. I ran into some at a gas station.
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