According to Snyder County Emergency Management, a contractor installed a temporary sleeve Sunday to stop the leak.
According to Snyder County Emergency Management, a contractor installed a temporary sleeve Sunday night to stop the leak.“Oh, I was kind of disgusted. It’s an awful environmental thing,” saidIt’s been over 24 hours since a 20-inch sewage line rupture was found near the East Snyder CountyThe pipe that broke moves an average of two million gallons of sewage a day to communities including Selinsgrove , Shamokin Dam and Penn Township.“This is just devastating with a sewer leak and all that.
"It’s, I guess, a catastrophic failure, but it is not even what I would consider an environmental catastrophe," Charles continued. "If we have any amount of rain at all, it’s going to bring the creek and the river up and the truth is it’ll flush it all out."
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