by Ron Fonger | The Flint Journal
\nThursday September 03, 2009<\/p>\n
FLINT — The city says vandalism appears to be behind a 14,000-gallon sewage spill into Swartz Creek Monday.<\/p>\n
Dawn Jones, a spokeswoman for Flint Mayor Dayne Walling, said today that city utility officials believe a person or persons took off a manhole cover from the area and dropped four large chunks of asphalt in.<\/p>\n
The asphalt plugged the city sewer, resulting in spills of 10,000 gallons of raw sewage on the ground and 4,000 more into Swartz Creek, according to a report by the city to the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality.<\/p>\n
The city’s report said the spill was discovered at 11 a.m. Monday and continued until 6:30 p.m. that same day in the area east of Hammerburg Road, south of Miller Road and north of I-69.<\/p>\n
Jones said the relatively small amount of asphalt in the sewer led officials to believe it was not dumped by a construction company looking to dispose of waste.<\/p>\n
Police are not investigating the incident, Jones said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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