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Tuesday rain causes smallest sanitary sewer overflow yet in 2010
Approximately 0.71 inches of rain fell on Fairfield Tuesday resulted in about 5,672 gallons of sanitary sewer overflows to Crow Creek and Cedar Creek.
According to wastewater treatment plant supervisor Loran Franklin, the largest overflow was 5,506 gallons at a manhole near Forest Park. Another manhole overflowed 166 gallons.
The overflow to Crow Creek was 5,506 gallons, and the overflow to Indian Creek, a tributary
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Sep. 30, 2018 7:43 pm
Approximately 0.71 inches of rain fell on Fairfield Tuesday resulted in about 5,672 gallons of sanitary sewer overflows to Crow Creek and Cedar Creek.
According to wastewater treatment plant supervisor Loran Franklin, the largest overflow was 5,506 gallons at a manhole near Forest Park. Another manhole overflowed 166 gallons.
The overflow to Crow Creek was 5,506 gallons, and the overflow to Indian Creek, a tributary to Cedar Creek, was 166 gallons.
The 5,672 gallons of overflow Tuesday is the lowest amount overflowed in 2010, said Franklin, but even with the low number, Fairfield still has a serious inflow and infiltration problem caused by an aging sewer system.
For the complete article, see the Wednesday, June 9, 2010, printed edition of The Fairfield Ledger
