Apparantly raw sewage from a man hole leaked for 20 consecutive days into High Rock Lake and the city of Thomasville did nothing about it until the EPA began an invetigation. This is fucking great, my home is less than a quarter mile from the lake

http://www.myfox8.com/wghp-story-raw-sewage-090915,0,5470319.story

9/16/2009 9:40:12 PM

I thought this thread was about the Dave Matthews Band

9/16/2009 9:41:02 PM

I don't think that it was terribly criminal. Even though they knew the flow was low, they sure as hell didn't know where it was going to or leaking from. The fastest way problems like this are found is due to reports from citizens.

9/16/2009 9:49:34 PM

fox 8 sucks

9/16/2009 9:51:48 PM

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"This is an example of all of the persons that knew of this leak having no conscience. My children and I have been swimming several times during this time, we live one lot from the water. People can die if they ingest e-coli intestional bacteria! They all had to know this. I was trained as a nurse and the biggest lesson taught was to stand on your own responsibility. Did they not feel this responsibility; how can they live with themselves:TWENTY (OR MORE) DAYS??? This is truly a crime against their fellow man, no less serious than the holocaust. Many people, including children, could have died. "

Some real winners leave comments on the local news pages.

9/16/2009 9:53:23 PM

lol. shit in water =/= holocaust. what a fucking idiot.

9/16/2009 9:55:32 PM

Fox 8 is all we have at home

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"I don't think that it was terribly criminal. Even though they knew the flow was low, they sure as hell didn't know where it was going to or leaking from. The fastest way problems like this are found is due to reports from citizens."

The article said it was reported by city workers twice during the three week period and nothing was done about. That is pretty criminal.

9/16/2009 9:57:08 PM

criminal indeed.

9/16/2009 9:57:46 PM

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Good luck finding that needle in the haystack.

9/16/2009 10:12:08 PM

BOOO BIG GOVERNMENT

STAY OUTTA MY SHIT LAKE

9/16/2009 10:13:01 PM

I was shittin' in lakes long before the government got involved.

9/16/2009 10:14:51 PM

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"Good luck finding that needle in the haystack"

iswydt

[Edited on September 16, 2009 at 10:55 PM. Reason : *My bad]

9/16/2009 10:38:48 PM

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"This is fucking great, my home is less than a quarter mile from the lake "

what is your source for drinking water?

9/16/2009 10:41:06 PM

The urinal from the gas station next door.

9/16/2009 10:42:03 PM

^^^I'm going to be a little short of calling you a completely fucking retard, but do you know what that blue blob in the lower corner is?

[Edited on September 16, 2009 at 10:42 PM. Reason : more ^]

9/16/2009 10:42:21 PM

^^^ High Rock Lake (Which is why I'm pissed). I also hunt and fish on the lake.

[Edited on September 16, 2009 at 10:44 PM. Reason : .]

9/16/2009 10:42:45 PM

Well then, does anyone see why spotting a leak may be a needle in a haystack problem?

9/16/2009 10:44:07 PM

^ No, considering they found the problem pretty quickly. They just didn't report it and let shit run into our water for three weeks. Nothing was done until the EPA got involved. Who knows how long it would have gone unfixed if there was no investigation.

9/16/2009 10:47:16 PM

Can I pretend like I know what the fuck I'm talking about in this thread? Because god damnit, I want to.

9/16/2009 10:48:42 PM

THERE'S SHIT EVERYWHERE!!!

9/16/2009 10:51:44 PM

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""On two occasions in the log book, operators had written down their was low flow but that was never brought to our attention at City Hall. I wish they had," said Morgan Huffman."

Is this the statement saying they knew shit was running into a lake's tributary and refused to fix it?

9/16/2009 10:59:09 PM

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"This is truly a crime against their fellow man, no less serious than the holocaust. "

LOL!

9/16/2009 11:05:00 PM

^^ Yes

9/16/2009 11:09:38 PM

Neuse River:

9/16/2009 11:15:06 PM

^^Tell me what you think that statement means.

9/16/2009 11:25:47 PM

THANK YOU FOR REMINDING ME TO DO MY IDS201 SHIT

I'm AstralAdvent and i approved this message.

9/16/2009 11:27:12 PM

^ That means that on two occasions technicians noted that sewage flow and pressure was low, indicating a leak. They reported this problem, but nobody looked into it and it was never reported to higher powers until the shit made it's way into High Rock Lake and people began smelling it. The worst thing is that this article just came out a whole month after the problem was reported. More waste was spilled here than at the Exxon Valdese wreck. The city has already been fined by the state and a federal investigation is currently underway by the EPA. Why are you even trying to defend this?

9/16/2009 11:47:23 PM

Look, you don't know all the details. We don't know how low "low flow" is. It absolutely could be lower than normal but not so low that we can go looking for the leak, and even if we did, we'd easily find it. Like someone else mentioned, the municipalities find out where the problem is when people start smelling shit or see strange things in their water. I suppose they could have been prudent and checked to see if there was runoff going into creeks (thus out of the system).

9/16/2009 11:51:32 PM

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"“It was very clear that on July 16, they knew there was very low flow of sewage coming into the sewage treatment plant.” Naujoks said, “It had dropped down to 1.5 million gallons per day. On average, about 2 million gallons per day is coming into that plant.”"

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"The incident is larger than the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill that dumped more than 10 million gallons of crude oil into Prince William Sound in Alaska."

500,000 gallons of sewage were missing every day for nearly three weeks. Don't tell me they didn't know something was up. When that amount of raw sewage is unaccounted for, they damn well better figure out where it's going. That's their freakin jobs. Had they looked and discovered the leak they could have contained the leak and kept from polluting millions of people's drinking water, food sources and recreation areas.

[Edited on September 17, 2009 at 12:15 AM. Reason : .]

9/17/2009 12:12:35 AM

Over the period of about a month, we had a water leak that totaled about 120,000 gallons of water. We were never the wiser as to where it was, and it wasn't visible. It took days of searching until we say a small constant trickle of water entering a ditch. After a lot of digging, we found the cracked 3/4" waterline.

That sewage leak was about 350 gallons per minute or 7 bathtub fulls per minute according to the current speculation. It would be very hard to find a leak that small unless it crossed a roadway or were close to a road. There are a lot of places in the middle of nowhere that could leak this much and the company would be hard pressed to find it should it be close to a body of water. Their negligence was to not check the tributaries, where it would have shown up first.

I would be interested in seeing more information about what the break actually was. Sewage sludge is usually pumped into the ground, hay is grown, animals are fed, slaughter and butchering of animals feeds us and the cycle of shit continues. I think the release of bacteria, and possibly feeding algae would be the biggest risks to the area and wildlife. Don't worry though, they will pay for their negligence, and they will have to make it as right as they possibly can.

9/17/2009 1:55:30 AM

how much is a millin gallons of shit?

10/30/2009 8:21:12 AM

happened between July and August...so it probably hit much of High Rock in late august and on. I wakeboarded and swam in HRL weekly up until about a month ago

10/30/2009 8:29:07 AM

blah blah blah

10/30/2009 8:31:42 AM

16 million gallons is about .02% of the volume of High Rock Lake.

10/30/2009 8:44:55 AM

It's near Lexington...that would explain why their BBQ tastes like shit

10/30/2009 9:55:22 AM

16 million gallons is about .02% of the volume of my member

10/30/2009 10:01:15 AM

so in other words, if you want to fuck a hole in a wall, you have to fuck that lake?

10/30/2009 10:12:01 AM

MILLIN

MILLIN

MILLIN

10/30/2009 10:13:31 AM

A MILLIN

A MILLIN

A MILLIN

10/30/2009 10:18:27 AM

SPILLIN A MILLIN

SPILLIN A MILLIN

SPILLIN A MILLIN

10/30/2009 10:19:08 AM

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"I'm going to be a little short of calling you a completely fucking retard, but do you know what that blue blob in the lower corner is?"

Since we're splitting hairs itt anyway, I'd like to point out that the only blue in any of the actual corners of your map are the G's in 'Google'.

10/30/2009 10:24:47 AM