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Thursday, December 16, 2010

BREAKING NEWS!!!!!

Wicomico River Temporary Closure

The Wicomico County Department of Environmental Health and The Salisbury Public Works Department announced at 9:00 AM today that due to a sanitary sewer overflow from a sewer main in Fitzwater Street that the Wicomico River is closed until tomorrow morning at 8:00 AM for fishing and contact sports.

The emergency was caused by a break in a 10 inch wastewater line in Fitzwater Street. Approximately 10,000 gallons of partially treated wastewater entered the storm drain system which flows to the river. The flow of wastewater from the pipe has been stopped and repairs are being made under the direction of the Salisbury Public Works Staff.

For further information contact Teresa Gardner, PE, Public Works Director at 410-430-4871.

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

Oh dang it !! I was gonna go do some contact sports on the water today.

Anonymous said...

Oh man i so wanted to eat some fish from down at that end of the river

Anonymous said...

when is this ongoing problem going to be fixed?????? this has gone on long enough.

Anonymous said...

$84 million dollars for lipstick on a pig instead of repairing the pipes, this is what you get.

Thanks, Barrie. Thanks, Gary.

Anonymous said...

Just about all the pipes are in need of repair. Think about when they were all originally installed.

Anonymous said...

Mr. Ireton:

Please don't tell me that "help is on the way".

Anonymous said...

This is outrageous the bay is polluted enough what's Salisbury trying to do kill all living creatures?

Anonymous said...

We the divers working on the sewage leak? Poor guys, they dont get paid enough

Anonymous said...

I will be right back I want to go catch some WRINKLE fish!!!!