(03/03/03) SAYREVILLE – Residents in Sayreville are recovering from a sewer line break on their street.? The break caused millions of gallons of raw sewage to flood Bamehurst Avenue.

An estimated 100 million gallons of sewage has flowed through a neighborhood (down Bamehurst Avenue) and into the Raritan River in the last 24 hours. It continued flowing at a rate of 3 millions gallons per hour for days.

A great river filled the roadways and flowed under parked cars and up onto the front yards of resident’s homes. The sewage flooded through icy snow which lay on the streets, the snow hindering the progress of the sewage, and turning it into icy shit. Smell somthing?

Meanwhile, last week, in Fort Mill, North Carolina, officials are still investigating a sewage spill that recently dumped between 800 and 1,000 gallons of raw sewage into Lake Wylie.

Investigators found cement had been dumped into the sewer system, had then hardened, and clogged up the line, causing the sewage to burst out of the pipes.

A spill like this is unusual, said Bruce Haas, the regional director of Tega Cay Water Service.

That same day, 3000 gallons of raw sewage was spilled in Seal Beach, California, as a sewage collection system on a private property clogged the sewage line.

A quarter mile of Seal Beach shorline was closed at the mouth of the San Gabriel River, as officials waited for the shit to flush out to sea.

Baltimore – At least 30 million gallons of raw sewage poured into Herring Run in northeast Baltimore — the result of a blockage in a 3-foot-wide pipe, city officials said.

The spill occurs nearly a year after the U.S. Department of Justice filed a lawsuit that said Baltimore repeatedly violated the federal Clean Water Act by discharging more than 100 million gallons of sewage in the past six years.

The settlement requires the city to make an estimated $940 million in repairs over 14 years — costs that will be passed on to customers of the city water system. The city also agreed to pay a $600,000 fine.

The day after that, in what was Iqaluit’s second sewage spill in two weeks, 24,000 litres of raw sewage were released into Koojesse Inlet when a power outage caused pumps to shut down at lift station number one near the library on Feb. 19, Rick Butler, the city?s chief administrative officer, said at a press conference Feb. 20.

You can see that the shit gets around.

If you want to know more, simply do a google news search for “sewage spill”!

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