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Syracuse, N.Y. -- At least 5 million gallons of sewage was dumped
into Ley Creek Saturday as work crews repaired a separate pipe that had spewed sewage into Onondaga Lake Oct. 21.
Saturday's discharge of "raw sewage that has been chlorinated"
started at 6:45 a.m. and lasted for at least 10.6 hours, Onondaga County
officials reported to the state. During that time, an estimated 8,000
gallons per minute of sewage flowed into the creek at 592 7th North St. in Liverpool. Ley Creek flows into Onondaga Lake.
Officials said last week they would have to dump the sewage into the creek in order to bypass and repair a 50-year-old pipe that had broken during record-breaking rainfall Oct. 21. That break spewed at least 7 million gallons of "raw, diluted sewage" into Onondaga Lake.
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Source: Syracuse.com
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