First the snow, then a freeze, then rain caused a huuuuuge amount of water overflow in parts of mid Michigan causing sewage treatment plants to discharge into nearby rivers.
An unknown volume of untreated sewage went into the Shiawassee River in Chesaning. The overflow lasted 14 hours. Not good.
Power problems downed sewage pumps in Millington. Close to 350,000 gallons of raw sewage overflowed from treatment lagoons into Millington Creek.
In Saginaw the wastewater was treated but it was in excess of 40 million gallons. That’s a lot of water, and a good thing because all in all over 1 million gallons of sewage spilled in Genesee County over the weekend melt. Anything to dilute the sewage helps. And even though the waste water was treated, unless it is fully treated, bacteria still remains.
Makes me wonder how the basically self-regulating, Michigan CAFO (Confined Animal Farm) industry faired? Big open-air lagoons of animal waste, pesticide, blood, etc., ended up where?
And what about the rest of the year? According to Mlive.com’s Minority Report:
July 21, 2008: Bay City Times: More than 20 million gallons of sewage was discharged to the Saginaw River last week, according to a report from the Saginaw Wastewater Treatment Plant.
August 07, 2008: Jackson Citizen Patriot: A mechanical error at a lift station on Riverside Road in Columbia Township caused about 3,891 gallons of sewage to overflow this morning onto the land around the station.
August 05, 2008: Muskegon Chronicle: An estimated 140,000 gallons of untreated sewage flowed into Lake Bella Vista late Sunday after a nearby sewage pipe broke, Kent County officials said today.
Because Michigan is surrounded by water, we should really be concerned about any and all spillages into our streams, rivers, creeks, and groundwater. There is nothing minor about it.
http://www.mlive.com/news/saginaw/index.ssf/2008/12/sewage_overflows_run_into_midm.html
http://www.mlive.com/flintjournal/index.ssf/2008/12/more_than_1_million_gallons_of.html
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