FORSYTH COUNTY, Ga. — As metro Atlanta prepares for another round of heavy rain Wednesday, some areas are still being impacted by the last few days’ rainfall.
There was a sewage spill at a manhole near Carolene Way in Cumming Monday.
The spill was an estimated 188,000 gallons of a stormwater and wastewater mixture that entered Big Creek near the Fowler Water Reclamation Facility, county officials said.
The Forsyth County Water and Sewer Department was notified at 9:30 p.m. and the overflow was stopped at 5:30 a.m. Tuesday.
The Forsyth County Water and Sewer Department was notified at 9:30 p.m. and the overflow was stopped at 5:30 a.m. Tuesday.
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Channel 2's Steve Gehlbach saw contractors testing water and taking samples from Big Creek at Fowler Park in south Forsyth County Wednesday morning.
“It’s a sewer spill, so you got to test for fecal coliform, E. coli, that kind of stuff. With all this rain we’ve gotten the past couple of days, it just rose up, got clogged up and came out of the ground and here it is in the creek,” said Seth George, an environmental scientist.
Gelhbach learned the leak from a water treatment facility runs under the Fowler Park greenway then down another 25 yards or so into Big Creek.
The water runs south passing into north Fulton county, where the water is still high Wednesday, before it eventually ends up in the Chattahoochee River.
The greenway remains closed to the public.
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