S&WB generators fail at wastewater treatment plant, forcing discharge into river

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The Sewerage & Water Board was forced to dump untreated sewage in the Mississippi River and Bayou Bienvenue after backup generators that had been supplying power during the post-Hurricane Ida blackout went down.

Interesting article about how wastewater had to be pumped into the Mississippi River, another negative effect from Hurricane Ida. This can't be good for a wetlands already crippled from too much salt water intrusion. The wetlands are like Joe Biden, they just can't catch a break, lol. Anyway the Mississippi River should do a decent job of flushing it into the Gulf of Mexico, not that that is a great thing, but I guess it happens all over the world on a daily basis, sad but true......

Read the full story here....
https://www.nola.com/news/article_94e78f74-0b7c-11ec-b622-7f9a678274c7.html

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I guess that was better than backing up into people houses, lol

That is the bright side, lol

Too bad it wasn't in the spring when the rivers are really rolling.

Yeah, good point