Nursing home spilling raw sewage into Buck Creek: 13,000 gallons a day -

Buck Creek watershed drainage area is 32.4 square miles
Buck Buck Creek flows into Little Tallapoosa River

EPD alerted twice by Carroll County Department of Environmental Health (CCDEH): EPD goes to wrong nursing home; then cancels inspection of correct nursing home; finally dogged by CCDEH into visiting site

Raw sewage continues to flow into open an well in Buck Creek watershed
Tallapoosa River System is only home to rare fish “Tallapoosa Darter”

story by Sue Horn

Acting on a tip from a close source and utilizing the Georgia Open Records Act (O.C.G.A.§50-18- 70), StarNews obtained information, photographs, and videos from Carroll County government and state revealing a long time ongoing large environmental spill in Carroll County discovered this past April by an employee of the Carroll County Department of Environmental Health (CCDEH). Records show that the Georgia EPD was repeatedly informed of the spill (story continued in October print edition on ISSUU, see home page)

*The following video clips of the ongoing sewage spill were made September 19, 2023

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