Comments on: ECUA Sewage Spills: 307,000 Gallons Into A Swamp; 8,000 Gallons Into A Stream

By: Random observer

Random observer — Mon, 17 Feb 2020 03:45:28 +0000

It looks like @ The Brown Water Magician assumed force main. It might be a gravity line – that seems possible since the swampy area appears to be a tributary to Carpenter Creek. There should be enough drop following along the creek for the turds to tumble happily…

By: Earl

Earl — Sun, 16 Feb 2020 20:35:50 +0000

@ The Brown Water Magician …..OR ..OR ..OR.. is why your are not doing that job anymore…know that for a fact..no OR…FLA is high when pumping not AMPs running dry….hope you are doing better on your new job

By: Anne

Anne — Sun, 16 Feb 2020 13:51:24 +0000

We drove past the “Old Poop Plant” on Main Street, downtown Pensacola, the other day after a rain and were greeted with a Very Familiar Smell of the waste that’s leaked for decades into that ground near the ball park.
Seems for many years the infrastructure has been deteriorating and not much has been done to fix things.
These latest spills tell us that there are too many Chiefs at the top and not enough folks doing the tough hands-on job of keeping things moving and safe for us all.

By: deucedropper

deucedropper — Sun, 16 Feb 2020 00:00:48 +0000

A crappy situation for all involved…

By: northend resident

northend resident — Sat, 15 Feb 2020 23:59:03 +0000

This is very concerning that this has happened.

It’s also situations like this that makes me so frustrated and angry every time the gov’t purposes bills for mandatory annual septic tank inspections and clean outs, because they are supposedly the #1 reason for environmental contamination to our water ways.

How quickly they forget about all the many years of sewage spills into our waterways actually being the #1 reason!

By: The Brown Water Magician

The Brown Water Magician — Sat, 15 Feb 2020 23:32:36 +0000

It is suprising that the lift stations closest to the swamp did not provide indication to this broken force main. I know it is common practice at ECUA for these lift stations to be checked weekly.
It had been my experience that when centrifugal pumps lose their head pressure (due to either a broken stand pipe or force main) that they would pull too many amps, trip their circuit breakers, and then the SCADA at the lift station would alarm and report to a control room at Ellyson Field which is manned 24/7.

OR, if there was enough head pressure and the pump breakers at the station BEFORE the force main break did not trip, then the Run Times at the lift station AFTER the force main break should have been down significantly, therefore indicating a problem, and the Control Room Operator should have noticed and dispatched a Lift Station Technician to investigate.

At least that’s how it’s supposed to work anyway. Been there, done that for over 15 years back in the day.

Out!