CFPUA Sanitary Sewer Overflow: Pump Station #36, near the Rivers Edge subdivision
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: Mike McGill
Cell: (910) 622-8472
mike.mcgill@cfpua.org
This news release was issued on October 10, 2016, in compliance with North Carolina General Statute 143-251.1C (a portion of the Clean Water Act of 1999). For further information, contact Mike McGill, Chief Communications Officer for Cape Fear Public Utility Authority (CFPUA), at the contact number and/or email given above.
Wilmington, NC (October 10, 2016): Late Sunday evening, Cape Fear Public Utility Authority (CFPUA) crews responded to a sanitary sewer overflow (SSO) involving overflowing manholes in the vicinity of Pump Station #36, located at 401 Longmeadow Drive near the Rivers Edge subdivision in Wilmington.
The SSO began at 11:30 p.m. on Sunday, October 9, 2016. Upon arriving on the scene, CFPUA crews discovered two pumps at the station had temporarily stopped working. The pumps were returned to service at 12:30 a.m., which ended the overflow at 12:40 a.m. on Monday, October 10, 2016.
While the overflow from the individual manholes was considered to be minor, the combined overflow from the manholes was estimated at 1,750 gallons of diluted wastewater. The overflow was found to have entered storm drains that run into a tributary of Barnards Creek. However, because the overflow was relatively small in size and was diluted by runoff following Hurricane Matthew, water quality testing is not being required by the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality.
CFPUA operates and maintains two wastewater treatment plants, more than 140 pump stations, and nearly 1,000 miles of sewer mains within the City of Wilmington and most of New Hanover County.
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Cape Fear Public Utility Authority (CFPUA) was formed by the City of Wilmington and New Hanover County to combine their water and sewer operations. It began operations on July 1, 2008. CFPUA serves approximately 200,000 people every day and oversees more than 1,000 miles of water distribution mains and nearly 1,000 miles of sewer mains. For more information, visit www.cfpua.org or contact Mike McGill, Chief Communications Officer, at (910) 332-6704.