April 24, 2018 – Charlotte Water (CLTWater) crews responded to a broken wastewater pipe near Oakdale Road, at the confluence of McIntyre Creek and Long Creek on April 23rd.
Crews are working to estimate gallons that may have reached Long Creek, part of the Catawba River Watershed.
A wastewater pipe was 50 feet from the creek bank, a fallen tee eroded the creek bank and caused the 30″ wastewater pipe to break, possibly due to Monday evening’s storm.
Charlotte Water is currently notifying downstream residents, mobilizing crews and resources to control the spill, and make repairs.
This spill does not affect drinking water.
Updates will follow with details as they are available.
This video was taken by crews yesterday evening.
Wastewater Spill at Long Creek
Transcript for this video: “Wastewater Spill at Long Creek”
Can you come through down to where we go from? My machine could. We’re at the confluence of McIntyre Creek and down here is where it will enter, it enters into Long Creek. As you can see, all the trees that fell across the creek have now caused the pipe to be, the pipe to fall. Right now the creek’s up so high we can’t see where the pipe is but we can see it exposed right there and the pipe is missing and which causes this creek to do this big turnaround meander right through here along with this tree so it’s definitely a situation you got to be careful it’s undermined the right-of-way has been undermined and if you get closer I’ll try to zoom in you can see right there what’s coming out so right now the creek is kicking there’s not much we could do except plan for staging and trying to figure out how we can get the bypass pumping in.