10,000 gallons of Poop and Pee

Sorry, "wastewater" is just too sanitary for me. 
JEFFERSON CITY, MO, SEPT. 13, 2010 – A lift station power outage late Friday resulted in the release of an estimated 10,000 gallons of wastewater to a Kansas City creek, according to the Missouri Department of Natural Resources.

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City officials reported to the department Saturday that between 10:30 p.m. Friday and midnight Saturday approximately 10,000 gallons of wastewater flowed from a manhole near 7430 NW Mace Road into an unnamed tributary to Pied Creek. A power outage at the Mace Road Lift Station caused the wastewater to back up in the collection system until it began to overflow from the manhole.

The city has sampled the water in the Pied Creek tributary to document the effect the overflow had on water quality. Clean water regulations require the city to submit a report detailing the release to the department within five days.

The department considers discharges of wastewater from sanitary sewer collection systems to be potential threats to public health and the environment. Such discharges have the potential to contaminate lakes and streams, causing serious water quality problems.