At first look it seemed like an ordinary sewage spill. Bad smell was the first clue something was wrong, and upon closer inspection oops someone better call the city. No harm - no foul, right?
From the Charlotte Observer:
Crews responded to a wastewater overflow in south Charlotte that caused an estimate 4,440 gallons of sewage to reach the Four Mile Creek, officials said. The overflow happened on Saturday in the 4700 block of Andrews Links Street, according to a release from Charlotte Water. A large rock fell on a wastewater pipe near the creek and caused the overflow. Four Mile Creek is in the Catawba River Watershed.
But wait where did they say the sewage went? Four Mile Creek says the City of Charlotte. But that's not exactly true.
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Unfortunately the flow of sewage doesn't go directly to Four Mile Creek, it goes straight into the TPC Piper Glen Mitchell Pond Number Six. Which is the home to a nesting pair of protected American Bald Eagles.
Both Eagles use the pond as a primary food source. They are also currently incubating two possibly three eggs due to hatch sometime next month.
The spill is large enough to create concern not only for the health of the eagles but for the fish and waterfowl that call the Mitchell Pond home.
3 comments:
That is one way to solve the eagle problem just kill them off.
CMUD doesn't care they are always dumping sewage into our creeks. All that rain last week and guess what happened at the McAlpine Sewage Treatment Plant or Park Road? Sewage overflow every gallon of it right into the creek and into the Catawba River. And guess who gets their drinking water from the river? Hello Rock Hill Hello Fort Mill how does your water taste now?
Business as usual around Charlotte.
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