Library of Documents on Sewage Issues and Treatment
- Water Quality Facts
- More Raw Sewage Flows into the Catawba
- More than 11,000 gallons spilled into Catawba basin creeks during Tuesday's (May 5) rainfall
- EPA ousts Lower Dissolved oxygen Variance for trout waters in the catawba river
- Overview of Sewage Issues
- Population growth in the Catawba-Wateree basin has created sewage dispoal challenges. While most people in the basin used to rely on septic systems, increasing population density and poor soil conditions, make septic systems problematic. Many developers install package treatment plants to handle waste from development where septic systems are not viable, but these unmanned package treatment plants generally have a poor compliance record. Nobody wants a massive public sewage treatment plant in their back yard, but they are often needed to deal with the growing quantity of waste.
- Catawba Riverkeeper Fights Sewage Permit
- Tega Cay Water Service has been exceeding its permit limits and harming Lake Wylie for more than two years. Catawba Riverkeeper has asked for a hearing on DHEC's recommendation to allow Tega Cay Water Service to continue to pollute.
- CRF Challenge TCWS Permits
- Catawba Riverkeeper challenges the issuance of discharge permits to Tega Cay Water Service based on a history of non-compliance.
- CRF Presentation to DHEC Board
- Presentation given to SCDHEC Board by Catawba Riverkeeper regarding TCWS's non-compliance with total phosphorus discharges and sanitary sewage overflows into Lake Wylie.
- Septic System Diagram
- Septic System Diagram
- Morganton Will Not Be Fined for 1.8 Million Gallon Sewage Spill Although New Spills Continue
- According to the Morganton News Herald, the City of Morganton will not not receive a penalty for in connection with the 1.8 million gallon spill of sewage spill in January or the failure to provide proper notice of the spill.
- Sludge-based fertilizer may be causing human illnesses
- Treated municipal sewage sludge - that is, the solids from sewage treatment - may be causing illness in people up to a mile from where the sludge is spread on land.
- Sewage Spills Continue in Tega Cay
- In 2010 Catawba Riverkeeper challenged the renewal of the discharge permit for Tega Cay Water Service, Inc. (owned by Utilities, Inc.), and successfully fought for upgrades to Tega Cay's sewage system, but they system is still having too many sewage spills.
