Friday, July 10, 2020

Sewage Overflows into Pearl

The city of Jackson issued the following statement. 


On Thursday, July 9, 2020, the City of Jackson issued an alert to customers in the Savanna Street Wastewater Treatment Plant area concerning a sanitary sewer overflow/bypass.


The overflow occurred as a result of excessive infiltration and inflow after the significant rain event on July 8, 2020. The City of Jackson responds to overflows in a manner consistent with state and federal standards. We are warning the public to avoid contact with the Pearl River from Savanna Street in Jackson to Swinging Bridge Road in Byram until the SSO/Bypass has ceased. 

• The SSO/Bypass is happening at the Savanna Street Waste Water Treatment Plant
• This is a result of excessive flow coming from the wastewater collection system during the rain 
   event on July 8, 2020.
• SSO/Bypass flow is going to the Pearl River outside of the Savanna Street Waste Water 
  Treatment Plant
• Estimated volume can range from 5.0 MGD to 150 MGD.

If you have questions regarding the SSO/Bypass from the Savanna Street Wastewater Treatment Plant, please call the City’s Contract Operator, Veolia North America at (601) 372-3439.

35 comments:

Anonymous said...

Why does this raw sewage mysteriously disappear south of the swinging bridge road?

Anonymous said...

Soon, the Pearl River will be nothing but an open sewer as far as South as Monticello. Change the name to the Sh#t River.

Anonymous said...

This stinks, but pretty soon it will be water under the (swinging) bridge.

Note to Jacksonians: Keep electing the commie mayor and this will continue.

Anonymous said...

But But But how could this be???? Didn't the city leaders just vote to remove the statue of Andrew Jackson??? All should be right with the world.

Anonymous said...

People in pearl will have to wear a mask. Not for Covid 19, because that stench that came from Jackson

Anonymous said...

And all those kids that back went to the river for the Fourth think they have corona? ha, think again.

Anonymous said...

maybe all that water bill money would just come in handy one day..hmm

Anonymous said...

Maybe, just maybe, if all of those downriver eco-types wouldn't try to blow up the One Lake project every chance they get, the City of Jackson could do the necessary development and build the necessary tax base to fix all of this.

Mr. 2-Bits said...

Does MGD mean "million gallons per day"? Please no.

Anonymous said...

Ladumba's sh*tshow continues to flow. Can't wait for that snazzy new planetarium.

Anonymous said...

Where the heck is the EPA? If this was a private company dumping sewage into a river the fines and cleanup fees would run into the millions.
This is an ongoing problem that should have already been dealt with. EPA and DEQ, start doing your damn jobs!

Anonymous said...

Mayor Lumumba, please stop poisoning us! Your citizens sh*t is killing the environment!

Anonymous said...

"Fecal City"???....

Anonymous said...

The rain is to fault (again), not incompetence.

Shazam said...

Sorry @8:35, but I too used to think there was a chance to save Jackson. I gave up after 20+ years of watching the leadership rob and pillage while the infrastructure failed and the businesses ran away. About as far as the One Lake Project or any other project will get is an expensive "study" contract awarded to someone's brother-in-law that will never amount to anything.

Anonymous said...

When Mayor Baby Chok was asked about this latest contamination, he just poo poo'd the question.

Anonymous said...

And suddenly the site is filled with tree huggers who care about the environment. I’m shocked

Anonymous said...

Send it to rankin to process and treat....the pipe already exists and Rankin has a new treatment facility. That is the ONLY solution and eventually DEQ or EPA will mandate it. Quite ironic isn't it?

Anonymous said...

For years, I've been saying that Jackson is a sh*t hole.

Anonymous said...

WRUA: "BWAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!"

Kingfish said...

Obviously it is not environmental racism if Jackson repeatedly poisons the river.

Anonymous said...

@Kingfish-
Yes, but we can all agree that racism is shitty.

Anonymous said...

9:41 Winner winner chicken dinner. Comment of the day.

Anonymous said...

This could be the first time in history the right is asking the EPA to take action. A truly historic day, we are all fortunate to have been here.

Anonymous said...

7:39 am This had zero to do with current Jackson leadership.
This has more to do with incompetent government and irresponsible citizens who for decades assumed they could contaminate the streams and rivers without consequence.

Anonymous said...

These events are occurring in part due to the tremendous amount of storm water ingress into to raw sewage system, due to the ever increasing failing raw sewage infrastructure. When there are big sink holes in the new pavement on Silas Brown by Stuart Irby, and it just sits there as a big drain for months on end, what can be expected?
Add onto it that sewage has to be pumped from lift station to lift station, as it is not a pressurized system like water, well that makes it even more expensive.

Anonymous said...

"On Thursday, July 9, the City of Jackson issued an alert to customers in the Savanna Street Wastewater Treatment Plant area concerning a sanitary sewer overflow/bypass."

Should this be "Unsanitary" sewer overflow/bypass?

Anonymous said...

Blame Game. Popcorn please.

It ain't nunna us. It's the fault of city leaders forty years ago.

It's the rain, never-mind the fact that it rains on every shit station in the US and Jackson floods the river with raw turds.

Been going on for a long time so that means it's OK to continue with this shit-show.

It's the way we always done it...so.

Anonymous said...

" Maybe, just maybe, if all of those downriver eco-types wouldn't try to blow up the One Lake project every chance they get,"

Please explain 8:35.

How can any (one) or (two) lake "project" at Meadowbrook or Northside Drive prevent Jackson turds from floating down the Pearl River ?

I think I'll pass on the famous Atwood bluegrass festival on the banks of the Pearl down in Monticello this year.

https://www.facebook.com/Atwood-Water-Park-103836879728553/

Papa Chokwe said...

Perhaps Mayor Chok should put a ban on all sales of laxatives such as but not limited to Ex-Lax, Miralax, Sennocot, Metamucil, and have his credible messengers deliver FREE cheese pizzas. That should do the trick. Or at least "slow the spread". Not going to do anything to "flatten the curve" of anybody's belly.

Anonymous said...

Hello? MDEQ? Wake up and do something!

Anonymous said...

As I understand it, the federal Environmental Protection Agency has delegated its authority under the Clean Water Act to the Mississippi Commission on Environmental Quality, which has empowered the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality with its regulatory authority.

If the state agencies don't live up to their end of the bargain, the feds can step in and take over, which may involve revoking MCEQ's water pollution General Permit. If that happens, any business that is regulated by MDEQ would then be regulated by the feds (chicken plants, hog farms, cattle operations, etc.).

So, are we going to regulate ourselves in this state, or are we going to let things go until the feds have to step in? (like we did with civil rights, the prison system, etc.) Just my $0.02.

Anonymous said...

I'm beginning to think the City of Jackson has no intention of repairing the sewer infrastructure or problems with the treatment plant. They are ignoring the problem intentionally knowing that at some point the EPA and/or MDEQ will step in and fix the problem. So what if the City is fined? Someone else will pay to fix the problem and any fines will be much less than the repair cost.

Anonymous said...

Kingfish brings the heat at 10:13- You are damn right!

Anonymous said...

8:21; Pay attention...and read more than the headlines. This is about the Pearl River, not Pearl, Mississippi. The stink is downriver. Take off your clothespin.


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