Sewage spill update, Feb. 7

Written By: Andrew Cauthen
2/9/11
Categorized in: DeKalb News

In the last 10 days there have been five sewage spills in DeKalb County totaling approximately 21,000 gallons, according to county records.

The largest of the spills occurred on Jan. 31 when an eight-inch pipe that carries sewage across the south fork of Peachtree Creek broke. This resulted in 8,600 gallons of raw sewage entering the creek. County worked repaired the break 3.5 hours after the problem was reported.

On Jan. 28, there were three spills, including a 5,000-gallon spill at Fuddruckers restaurant in Tucker. According to county records, the restaurant’s grease trap failed and began overflowing. Contractors had to repair the trap’s electrical circuits.

Other spills that day included 3,940 gallons of sewage that spilled into the north fork of Peachtree Creek, and a 1,500-gallon spill into Snapfinger Creek.

Another 1,560-gallon spill into Pole Bridge Creek occurred on Feb. 3.

Last month, there were 25 spills in the County causing more than 340,000 gallons of sewage to flow into area creeks.

Comments (3)

Richard Younge

Said this on 2/13/11 At 10:53 am

DeKalb County was awarded $15 million of Stimulus Funds in 2008 for green projects, that they nearly lost all of on Tuesday Feb 8th, 2011 because they had done nothing with the money. They finally adopted a methane gas project to fuel 40 county vehiclse for $7.2 million. I know there is at least one company that has been trying to get them to finance a pilot project to collect residential grease that would only cost $25,000 to start and they say they have no money for this. We know that these Sanitary Sewer Overflows are largely coming from residential grease now, because existing law requires restaurants and food establishments must have their grease picked up by commercial services. So, why do they have $7.2 million for methane and they don't have $25,000 to test projects to solve their $1.4 billion sewer problem? What's wrong with this picture?

gracie

Said this on 2/10/11 At 12:52 am

Dekalb County does not care how many sewage spills this county racks up. Dekalb County does not care how much taxpaying dollars are being spent on fines to the EPD or EPA for these spills. Dekalb County actually doesn't care about anything that involves spending taxpayers dollars for stupid things that could have been preventive. The bunch of idiots at Roads & Drainage, Watershed Mis-Management,Water & Sewer, and rest of those lazy workers who drive all over the county all day long doing nothing. Some of these lazy individuals even get overtime for doing nothing. These hard non-working groups hide behind shopping centers, Quik Trips, and other hiding places. They play the lottery on county time, and no one of supervisory capacity gives a crap.
This is why Dekalb County says they are going broke. This county is going broke because of mis-management, lazy workers in those above mentions departments, and a large group of freeloaders.

A lot of hard working taxpayers pay a lot of money to think that this would improve the quality of life in this county. That is a myth. The county roads has potholes the size of wheelbarrows, crumbling infrastructure, sidewalks that have disappeared, mud left over from water mains that were fixed, but never repayed. In addition to this, the county has green space which was donated to the county, but has chain link fences that are locked and unaccessible to the public. The list of things that are wrong with this county, is way too long to list here.

It would be very nice if those lazy politicians would get off their fat butts and start to make this county like it was back in the 1960's. All we can do now is dream, for this is not going to change this mess for anytime soon.

So go ahead and spend that money and see what will prevail........Dust !!

Lichele

Said this on 2/9/11 At 03:18 pm

Stinky! Stinky! Bacteria infested community!

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