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« Updated: N. Kingstown teacher named state's teacher of year / photo | Today | Federal Hill to hold first Christmas Stroll » November 23, 2005Most sewage rerouted after pumps failed in BristolBRISTOL -- Three temporary pumps were hard at work today rerouting sewage into a wastewater treatment plant after the facility's main pumping system failed yesterday morning, pushing back millions of untreated About 95 percent of the waste, which is piped from buildings into a waiting pond, had been pumped through the system by early this afternoon, according to Matthew Calderiso, the Bristol assistant superintendent of water pollution control. Calderiso estimated that between 1 and 4 million gallons of sewage had overflowed in the area just east of Narragansett Bay near Hope and Wood Streets. Much of it was cleaned up yesterday and last night, however. Special cleanup crews were helping a handful of homeowners today with removing waste from their properties. Meanwhile, the state Health Department said this morning that water in the area was safe to drink. However, Bristol Harbor remained closed to shellfishing. It still was not known exactly why the pumps failed. But one of the permanent, stronger pumps, which had
-- With reports from Journal staff writer Michael McKinney Posted by Andrea Panciera |
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