A wastewater plant in the middle of Georgia’s largest city spilled partially treated water into the Ocmulgee River after a series of equipment failures in December.
WMAZ-TV reports that the Macon Water Authority’s treatment plant released more than 100 million gallons of partially treated water into the river.
The water authority said that it struggled with freezing weather and equipment failures at the Graphic Packaging International paper mill. The mill is one of the authority’s largest sources of wastewater.
Wastewater from the paper mill overloaded the treatment plant, said interim Water Authority Director Ron Shipman, with the plant emitting water with suspended solids as much as 10 times above permitted levels.
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Shipman said the spill didn’t environmentally harm the river.
“We’re not talking anything that wasn’t treated. We’re talking product or effluent that was treated. It just wasn’t treated…
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