300,000 gallons of sewage backing up in Ann Arbor near Huron River
Apparently an uninflated sewer plug and 3,000 ft of rope caused a sewer to back up, and sent 300,000 gallons of sewage into the Dow Prairie (which I believe is at the Arboretum). Some contractor "lost" the rope while doing sewer inspections. That sounds like a lot of sewage.
So, if you had any plans to go kayaking or swimming in the Huron any time soon, may want to hold off until after a few good rains.
That's shitty.
(I will be here all night folks)
You mean Shit Happens. FIFY
Again?!
This is turning into a tradition around here
I think the cooler poopers were on vacation up here over the weekend and emptied their coolers the same way they do down in their homeland.
Unfortunately.
I believe it was September 2016 when about twice the amount mentioned in this story was accidentally released near Gallup Park due to someone's mistake. I can remember spills of varied size before that one as well.
Be certain that that is not a whole bunch of baby ruths floating in the river.
Doodie!
"It's no big deal."
Probably smells like the Olentangy River does every football Saturday in Columbus.
Must be the Columbus Order of Buckeyes annual float trip on the Huron.
Oh great, MSU is trying to play Risk in real life again.
Risk is a thinking game. That should rule out MSU.
Obviously these types of things are frowned upon and explicitly prohibited in NPDES permits, but 300K gallons isn't so bad. Discharges like this are typically measured in millions.
I'm not advocating that someone go muck around in it, but its not that unusual. Here's a map of Great Lakes communities whose sewers are designed to discharge like this when it rains. Granted, that is typically to a water body, not a prairie.
Lake Erie must be awful...
Anything Cleveland touches is off to a bad start in life
The solution to pollution is dilution.
True in past centuries, but unfortunately when you tweak the entire atmosphere no dilution remains.
Don't these MSU fans know the game is in East Lansing this year?
Sparty got lost again on his way to East Lansing, didn't he?
I guess that means they won't be replacing the field turf with real grass this season like they said they would.
That stinks. I think I'd not go swimming or boating in Ford Lake for a bit. Too bad the women rowers practice on that lake.
I have a really funny gif that I no longer know how to insert here. Progress!
Sorry, but I just can’t resist. Gives new meaning to your fight song “Hail to the Victors,” as I learned it. “Hail to those m***f**rs, Hail to those c***suckers. Hail, Hail to Michigan the cesspool of the north.”
j/k hey I’m from Cleveland and rivers catch on fire there
We used to say "Shit happens in Grand Haven when it rains in Grand Rapids".
Any time it rained in GR they would send millions of gallons of raw sewage our way down the Grand River. Took forever for them to give a shit and spend the money to separate their storm drains from their sewers.
On a good note, jumping off the pier into the Grand River was always about 10-20 degrees warmer than jumping into Lake Michigan. :)