Talking Tucker
Our Creeks and Your Kitchen
With a $1.3 billion initiative in the works by the Dept. of Watershed Management, the health of local creeks and drinking water will improve, with your help.
Just about every weekend for the past eight years, DeAnn Peterson and her son step outside their back door in Tucker to walk their small corner of Camp Creek. Their typical creek-bed journey brings Great Blue Heron visits, darter fish watching, and your typical floating trash pickup. But over the last two months Camp Creek brought them a very different story down her riverbed... Thick black sewer water that stuck around for days before Mother Nature was able to flow it further downstream. The Culprits? Two sewer force main breaks. One from lift station #28 by the old Sears building and the other a private sewer lift station behind Wal-Mart. The Power of Social Media DeAnn Peterson was disgusted. She and her family have enjoyed this …
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russ taylor
1:04 pm on Wednesday, May 2, 2012
My company, SEWERLOCK, is currently working with the DeKalb Department of Management and it appears that the sewage is coming from a unsecured manhole cover. I will alert the department that further investigation should be done in areas upstream-SEWERLOCK is an easy to install manhole security sub-ring and locked pan that prevents sanitary sewer overflows! Russell Taylor SEWERLOCK more ›