Sebastopol Sewage Spill-HAS BEEN REPAIRED!

[Efren Carrillo]

The Sebastopol Sewage Spill, as reported below, HAS BEEN REPAIRED! Thanks to Efren Carrillo (5th District County Supervisor) for letting us know of the problem, and Kenyon Webster (Sebastopol Planning Director) for letting us know it was fixed in a timely manner.

Barry


This has been repaired.

See press release on City web site: https://www.ci.sebastopol.ca.us/pdfs/news/01-21-10%20Press%20Release%20-%20LFM%20Main%20Break.pdf


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The City of Sebastopol has experienced a rupture of our main wastewater transmission pipe requiring us to shut down pumping to the treatment facility. City crews will be pumping and hauling wastewater generated in the City by truck to the treatment plant in Santa Rosa, until the wastewater main repairs are completed.
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During the next 24-48 hours, residents are requested to limit indoor water use to a minimum, to minimize the amount of wastewater flow which must be trucked to the plant. In particular, use of dishwashers, clothes washers and showers should be curtailed during this period. If you have questions, call the Public Works Department at 823-5331 during normal business hours.
Thank you for your cooperation.
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2. To all residents that are down stream of the spill, from the city limits to the Russian River, 500 feet on both sides of the Laguna. (about 70 residents).
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This is an emergency message from the City of Sebastopol.
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There has been an accidental release of wastewater into the Laguna De Santa Rosa surface waterway. If your water wellhead is under water, where contaminants can enter your well, do not use your water for the next 48 hours. Please avoid contact with the Laguna surface water as it may carry contaminants. If you have questions, call the Sebastopol Public Works Department at 823-5331, during normal business hours. Thank you for your cooperation.

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[Thad]

Congratulations Barry, your site has gained a very substantial position in the evolving network of community, I wonder how much more could be accomplished?


https://www.ci.sebastopol.ca.us/images/newcitylogo.JPG
<table class="MsoNormalTable" style="width: 6in;" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="576"><tbody><tr style=""><td style="border: medium none rgb(212, 208, 200); padding: 0in; background-color: transparent;">This is an emergency message from the City of Sebastopol.
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The City of Sebastopol has experienced a rupture of our main wastewater transmission pipe requiring us to shut down pumping to the treatment facility. City crews will be pumping and hauling wastewater generated in the City by truck to the treatment plant in Santa Rosa, until the wastewater main repairs are completed.
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During the next 24-48 hours, residents are requested to limit indoor water use to a minimum, to minimize the amount of wastewater flow which must be trucked to the plant. In particular, use of dishwashers, clothes washers and showers should be curtailed during this period. If you have questions, call the Public Works Department at 823-5331 during normal business hours.
Thank you for your cooperation.
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2. To all residents that are down stream of the spill, from the city limits to the Russian River, 500 feet on both sides of the Laguna. (about 70 residents).
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This is an emergency message from the City of Sebastopol.
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There has been an accidental release of wastewater into the Laguna De Santa Rosa surface waterway. If your water wellhead is under water, where contaminants can enter your well, do not use your water for the next 48 hours. Please avoid contact with the Laguna surface water as it may carry contaminants. If you have questions, call the Sebastopol Public Works Department at 823-5331, during normal business hours. Thank you for your cooperation.

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[Zeno Swijtink]

Does anyone know whether this rupture has been repaired??

[Cheingrand]

I got this timely information from WaccoBB, and then was flooded with multiple recorded phone calls from the city of Sebastopol with the same information. The first call woke us up at 9:30PM, the second call was at 1:30AM, and the third call woke us again at 6AM. With parents in hospice and grown children scattered, our hearts raced each time as calls at this hour usually are family emergencies. A sewage spill notification is surely important but three calls during the night is excessive.

[Kenyon Webster]

This has been repaired.

See press release on City web site: https://www.ci.sebastopol.ca.us/pdfs/news/01-21-10%20Press%20Release%20-%20LFM%20Main%20Break.pdf

[Barry]

I'm glad to hear this has been repaired so quickly! Thanks to Efren Carrillo (5th District County Supervisor) for letting us know of the problem, and Kenyon Webster (Sebastopol Planning Director) for letting us know it was fixed in a timely manner, and all the people who helped minimize the impact of this spill.

Here's the text of the city's announcement:

PRESS RELEASE
January 21, 2010

At 11:37 a.m. on Wednesday, January 20, 2010, the City or Sebastopol received a report of a broken sewer main in the Meadowlark Field east of the Laguna de Santa Rosa, north of Highway 12. Public Works and Engineering staff responded to the scene and confirmed a break in the sewer transmission main which carries wastewater from the City of Sebastopol to the Subregional sewer treatment plant on Llano Road. At the time it was discovered, water was flowing from the broken main across the field to the drainage way leading to the Laguna de Santa Rosa.

The City immediately made the required reports to State regulatory authorities and proceeded to arrange for containment of the spill and repairs to the main. City residents were notified to conserve water as much as possible until repairs could be made, to limit the amount of wastewater flowing to the system.

At the time of the incident, the Laguna was flooding out of its banks into the field, due to heavy rains earlier in the morning. On the recommendation of the North Coast Regional Board, all residents downstream of Sebastopol with water wells within 500 feet of the Laguna de Santa Rosa were also notified of the wastewater spill.

The City had a contractor on scene by 12:50 p.m. to excavate the broken main and make repairs. Pump trucks were also deployed at the site of the main break to contain the leaking wastewater to the extent possible, and near the City’s sewer pumping station on Morris Street. The pump station was shut down and wastewater flowing in the system was pumped into tanker trucks and hauled to the treatment plant during the afternoon and evening, to divert wastewater flow from the area of the main break. The contractor completed repairs to the transmission main by 9:54 p.m. and the pumping system was put back in service.

The City continues to investigate the cause of this rupture, and will be assembling additional reports from our engineers and field personnel.


Susan Kelly, Public Information Officer
City of Sebastopol
(707) 823-2151

[Cheingrand]

If the repairs were completed at 9:54 PM last night, why did we get recorded messages of the problem at 9:30 last night, 1:00 and 6:00 and 10:00 this morning? Being awakened three times to be told of an incident that was already repaired is BS.




PRESS RELEASE
January 21, 2010

... The contractor completed repairs to the transmission main by 9:54 p.m. and the pumping system was put back in service.

["Mad" Miles]

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[Kenyon Webster]

To everyone who received the multiple phone calls about this situation, we apologize. City workers got them too. The automated alert system is operated by the County Office of Emergency Services, and it was due to some kind of malfunction that the message calls repeated last night. We notified them of the problem and they will work to correct it.

The best news is, of course, that the sewer main break was repaired quickly, thanks to quick action by the Sebastopol Public Works Department and others.

-Kenyon Webster, City of Sebastopol