City experiences sewer overflow hours before SPLOST vote

ALBANY – Maybe it was a sign that helped push the Albany and Dougherty County commissions to come to an agreement on the split of proposed special-purpose local-option sales tax figures after weeks of sometimes contemptuous negotiations.

On Wednesday evening, from 5:32 p.m. to 8:37 p.m., only hours before the city and county governments reached an agreement that will, among other things, allocate funding for an overhaul of the city’s sewer system, the city experienced a sanitary sewer overflow.

The overflow was upstream of Lift Station 4 into the stormwater detention pond at Elm Street and Gordon Avenue. It occurred following a power loss at the station. An estimated 15,570 gallons of sewage was discharged into the Percosin Canal system via the pond located at 701 Elm St.

As soon as the power was restored, the overflow ceased, city officials said.

Residents should avoid contact with water in the canal system for the next 30 days as a precaution. No city of Albany drinking water systems were affected by the leak.

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