Untreated wastewater spill reported in lower Russian River, people urged to ‘stay away’
People are being asked to stay away from the lower Russian River after an unknown volume of untreated wastewater spilled from a sewage treatment plant in Guerneville during the tail-end of a storm that drenched Sonoma County and flooded many roads across the region. Heavy overnight rainfall — part of the region’s prolonged atmospheric river — caused storage ponds at the facility to overflow early Tuesday morning, said Stuart Tiffen, a spokesman for Sonoma Water, which operates the Russian River Treatment Plant. Affected residents were alerted of the spill Tuesday morning, officials said. … Some of the discharge was traveling a quarter of a mile through a forested area before it reached the mainstem of the river, officials said.
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