Cleanup crews respond to sewage spill on Douglas Island in Juneau

📆 3/10/2023 5:33 AM
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No solids were visible in the initial spill, and much of the initial cleanup on the beach has already wrapped up.

Hoses attached to the wastewater lift station on Douglas Island discharged into Gastineau Channel after a system failure early this morning

Chad Gubala, a manager for the city’s wastewater utility, said that an equipment malfunction at around 5:30 Thursday morning caused sewage to spill from a city lift station near Sandy Beach into Gastineau Channel. Gubala said no solids were visible in the initial spill, and much of the initial cleanup on the beach has already wrapped up.The majority of the spill went directly into the channel. Gubala said the state Department of Environmental Conservation was notified by the city. The DEC has a standard procedure for sewage discharge to make sure everything was cleaned up properly.

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