Town Reports Third Wastewater Spill Into Little Creek Since June
CLAYTON, N.C. — For the second time in less than two weeks, heavy rainfall has caused untreated wastewater to spill into Little Creek from the Town of Clayton’s Little Creek Reclamation Facility.
According to a public notice issued Thursday, approximately 4,500 gallons of untreated wastewater overflowed this morning at the influent pump station on Durham Street. Town officials estimate 1,000 gallons entered a stormwater pipe that discharges directly into Little Creek.
The overflow occurred during a heavy rain event. The National Weather Service reported about 3 inches of rain fell between 8 a.m. and 10 a.m. Thursday, while a rain gauge at the Little Creek Reclamation Facility measured 2.57 inches during the same period.
State law requires utilities to notify the public whenever 1,000 gallons or more of untreated wastewater reaches surface waters.
The North Carolina Division of Water Resources was notified of the discharge and is reviewing the incident.
The latest spill comes just 11 days after another storm-related overflow at the same facility. On July 12, approximately 3,000 gallons of untreated wastewater entered Little Creek after heavy rain overwhelmed the system.
The Town of Clayton has also experienced a much larger wastewater spill this year. In June, officials reported more than 403,000 gallons of untreated wastewater entered Little Creek after debris blocked a gravity sewer main near Veterans Parkway.
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I guess Clayton assumes this problem will eventually correct itself.
Who’s managing this facility. All the growth in Clayton area doesn’t have the infrastructure in place.
3 inches of water caused a overflow? And this is the 3rd time? Sounds like to me someone is not doing their job. Does there need to be some firings?
This Lettuce bacteria is getting out of hand.
Another explosive diarrhea Story.
Ahhh yes,it’s the rains fault. It couldn’t be that there are some incompetent people working there….people don’t make errors..Mother Nature does.
There needs to be a proactive plan in place to keep this from happening. Where is the committee that handles this and what are they doing about it? Safety nets and clean up processes need to be in place, as well as, consequences.
Well I don’t think a proactive plan will ever happen. Like I said after the last spill this has been a problem for years, and for years the town has kicked the can down the road for someone or something else to deal with. This is how the Flim-Flam form of Good Old Boys & Girls local government works in JoCo. Spill, Report, Repeat that’s the irresponsible Clayton Way.
Well I don’t think a proactive plan will ever happen. Like I said after the last spill this has been a problem for years, and for years the town has kicked the can down the road for someone or something else to deal with. This is how the Flim-Flam form of Good Old Boys & Girls local government works in JoCo. Spill, Report, Repeat that’s the irresponsible Clayton Way.
They just built a new wwtp on cover bridge road and they send 2 million a day to Raleigh but that ain’t enough because they keep building new houses