Close to 100 community members impacted by a massive sewage spill in the northern part of the city of Clearlake attended a town hall on Wednesday evening to hear the latest about efforts to test wells and help residents try to get back to normal. Wednesday marked 10 days since a 16-inch force main operated by the Lake County Sanitation District ruptured in the area of Robin Lane in Clearlake, spilling an estimated 2.9 million gallons during the 38-hour period of time in which repairs were underway. … [Environmental Health Department Director Craig Wetherbee] said monitoring will be long-term — for years — but the response itself won’t last that long. If there is more rain, he said it could cause more contamination, with the bacteria mobilized in the soil.

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