JJ reported yesterday that White Oak Creek was filled with raw sewage where it flows under Old Canton Road. A reader said JJ was full of crap and there was nothing wrong with the creek. Well, yours truly spoke to MDEQ this morning and learned the agency issued a warning about White Oak Creek on May 25:
MDEQ is warning Jackson residents of a substantial sewer break in Northeast Jackson that intensifies a long-issued water contact advisory for an area creek. MDEQ’s Office of Pollution Control received and responded to a sewage related complaint this afternoon from a resident who lives near White Oak Creek. MDEQ’s Field Services team verified the complaint in the immediate vicinity of the creek, at the intersections of Ridgewood Road, Fairfax Circle, Adkins Boulevard and Timberlain Drive, and alerted officials with the City of Jackson. The line where the break occurred is referred to by the city as the “White Oak Interceptor”. The 24” sewer line runs parallel to White Oak Creek. It appears a portion of the creek bank slid and caused the main line to collapse. City officials tell MDEQ that they are working on both a temporary and long-term fix. While White Oak Creek (as well as many creeks and water bodies in the Jackson area) has been-and remains-under a water contact advisory since June 2019, the current situation requires a heightened reminder that people should avoid water contact such as swimming, wading, and fishing in the White Oak Creek area. MDEQ will remain in contact with city officials and continue to monitor the situation. Media inquiries should be directed to the City of Jackson.
Drivers will notice the smell of raw sewage as they approach the creek. One can only imagine what those living near the overflow endure. JJ pointed out the smell in the comments but the reader said there was no smell. The reader might just be a troll or more likely lives in so much crap he can no longer distinguish the smell.
Unfortunately, there is little MDEQ can take to remedy the situation.
19 comments:
This place, Jackson, they have a long turdition of sewer problems, don’t they?
This should help the proposed 700 unit home development in your other article.
Wish our State Capitol and State employees were anywhere else!
Got some boo boo up in here. I'm sure the mayor will hold a listening session. Instead, he needs to hold a smelling session.
Reckon that misinformed reader was/is the Chokster?
Maybe Rukia can organize a balloon release that should fix this. Right? Or Chowke can have a town hall meeting, or maybe cocoa with the popo. Right?
"Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba received the John F. Kennedy New Frontier Award on Saturday, March 26.
The Harvard Kennedy School presents the award to those under the age of 40 who are changing their communities and country with their commitment to public service."
If Mel Brooks has one more movie in him, the script is written and gift-wrapped for him.
Mayor lil choke needs funding to implement Jackson’s own “Real Time Crap Center”. State of the art technology that will monitor each boo boo spot to help systemically bring Jackson to the forefront as a leader for monitoring and interacting with raw boo boo to ensure total equity, equality and inclusion. Right?
It's the perception of shit.
Oak Creek Sewer Main Break
Posted: May 25, 2023
Sewer Main Break Forces Heightened Warning to Residents
to Avoid Water Contact in White Oak Creek
(Jackson, MS)–MDEQ is warning Jackson residents of a substantial sewer break in Northeast Jackson
that intensifies a long-issued water contact advisory for an area creek.
MDEQ’s Office of Pollution Control received and responded to a sewage related complaint this afternoon
from a resident who lives near White Oak Creek. MDEQ’s Field Services team verified the complaint in
the immediate vicinity of the creek, at the intersections of Ridgewood Road, Fairfax Circle, Adkins
Boulevard and Timberlain Drive, and alerted officials with the City of Jackson.
The line where the break occurred is referred to by the city as the “White Oak Interceptor”. The 24” sewer
line runs parallel to White Oak Creek. It appears a portion of the creek bank slid and caused the main
line to collapse. City officials tell MDEQ that they are working on both a temporary and long-term fix.
While White Oak Creek (as well as many creeks and water bodies in the Jackson area) has been-and
remains-under a water contact advisory since June 2019, the current situation requires a heightened
reminder that people should avoid water contact such as swimming, wading, and fishing in the White Oak
Creek area.
MDEQ will remain in contact with city officials and continue to monitor the situation. Media inquiries
should be directed to the City of Jackson.
Bettye LaVette - "Everything Is Broken"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAoRejeFSfU
How can we say I did not read the post?
would of been nice to know about MEQ alert; the june one 2019 is for down river;
@12:54
that's only four years.
KF, if you are trying to claim that this press release is related to the EEEWEEE post below - it doesn't work. Basic law of plumbing (and drainage in general) - shit doesn't run uphill.
The MDEQ release is about WHITE OAK CREEK, the EEEWEEE post is about Hanging Moss Creek.
White Oak and Hanging Moss do interset some mile or so below the Old Canton Road crossing, and the 'black water' wouldn't have come upstream to the point of Old Canton Road, particularly while the creek was free flowing southeast.
OK. Retract. Your post was about White Oak Crossing Old Canton - it was taken to be where the road slide is where Hanging Moss crosses Old Canton -- which also did have what looked to be black water, until it gets out of the shadow of the collapsing bridge.
The White Oak crossing of OCR is up near Westbrook Road. Misidentified the two potential waste overflows.
Didn't Hemphill Construction or somesuch JUST rebuild that whole section two or three years ago?
Yeah 3:25! But probably 4-5 years ago.
Or MDEQ and EPA could fine the city $25,000 per day for as long as the violation continues under the Clean Water Act.
Well, you no gummint conservatives don't want to give MDEQ any power to actually do anything.
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