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Blocked sewer line results in 40,000 gallon wastewater overflow in Greenwood near Lake Winnebago
JEFFERSON CITY, MO, APRIL 27, 2010 – The Missouri Department of Natural Resources is sampling water from a private lake near a Kansas City area community following the release of an estimated 40,000 gallons of untreated wastewater late last week.
The department was notified Monday morning by the Greenwood city officials that a combination of asphalt and shop rags clogged a sewer line in Greenwood , causing the sewage in the line to back up and spill out from a manhole in the 900 block of Brent Court .
The release was reported to the sewer district Friday morning. The clog, which city officials reported as an act of vandalism, was removed and the release stopped approximately 3 a.m. Saturday.
The wastewater flowed into a detention pond that empties into Lake Winnebago , which is a private lake. The department dispatched a staff member from its Kansas City Regional Office in Lee’s Summit to take water samples from the lake.
Clean water regulations require the city to notify the department within 24 hours of a wastewater release and to submit a report detailing the release to the department within five days. The department will base future enforcement action on the city’s report.
The department considers discharges of wastewater from sanitary sewer collection systems to be potential threats to public health and the environment. Such discharges have the potential to contaminate lakes and streams, causing serious water quality problems.
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