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Burlington wastewater plant dumps 100,000 gallons of sewage into river

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A power outage at the Burlington wastewater treatment plant Tuesday morning caused equipment to shut down.

All processing equipment in the headworks building failed during the outage at 9:32 a.m. An estimated 105,000 gallons of untreated wastewater flooded the building and then discharged to the Mississippi River during the 15 minutes before staff could restart the equipment.

Plant workers are cleaning the building, hosing the pavement and area where the effluent flowed into the river.

The DNR will monitor the cleanup.

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Burlington wastewater plant dumps 100,000 gallons of sewage into - CBS4 - WHBF Quad Cities, IL-IA News Weather Sports

Burlington wastewater plant dumps 100,000 gallons of sewage into river

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