County Dumps 5 Million Gallons of Sewage into Ley Creek to Fix Busted Pipe

By Glenn Coin 

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