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Mecklenburg County's Response To "It's A Crapshoot" - and Creative Loafing's Rebuttal
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In addition, the article pays little attention to efforts currently underway to improve the maintenance of the sewer collection system to prevent spills from occurring in the first place. The MCWQP has worked with Charlotte-Mecklenburg Utilities to identify areas of high fecal coliform contamination and sewer line failures so that resources can be concentrated toward upgrading sewer systems to prevent discharges from occurring.
Further, the article fails to inform citizens of the contribution they can make in helping prevent sewer overflows. For example, the vast majority of sewer overflows are caused by household cooking grease being poured down drains and entering the collection system causing blockages in lines. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Utilities has worked hard to get this message out but this article completely ignores this important fact.
The MCWQP believes that more can and should be done to address sewer spills into our creeks and lakes. Contrary to what the article implies, we see this as an extremely important issue and we are working diligently to reduce the number of spills and improve water quality conditions in our streams. Clean water has and always will be our goal.
CL response: Again, this is a well-crafted CYA statement aimed at elected officials. We applaud anything and everything done to detect sewage spills, but that was not the point of the article. Why bother to detect them, or inform people of how to help prevent them, or work to upgrade sewer systems if the partnership between the state and the county repeatedly fails in punishing the polluters?
-- John Grooms, Editor
-- Tara Servatius, Reporter
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Mecklenburg sounds off
Mecklenburg County's Response To "It's A Crapshoot" - and Creative Loafing's Rebuttal
