MONTOURSVILLE (AP) - A northcentral Pennsylvania official says a broken main sent nearly 2 millions of gallons of raw sewage into a major tributary of the Susquehanna River late last month.
Christine Weigle, executive director of the Lycoming County Water and Sewer Authority, said the leak happened between Jan. 20 and Jan. 26 in a main that carries sewage from Loyalsock Township to a treatment plant east of Montoursville.
Weigle told The (Harrisburg) Patriot-News that a contractor removing piers from a railroad bridge destroyed in fall flooding broke a 10-inch main encased in concrete in Loyalsock Creek.
She said about 1.2 million gallons of sewage from the township emptied into the creek, and so did another 720,000 gallons that back-flowed from Montoursville.
The state Department of Environmental Protection is investigating.
