Wastewater spill contained Friday evening on Osage Street in Amarillo

From Staff Reports
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A second wastewater spill on Osage Street this week was contained Friday evening, according to the city of Amarillo.

The city said the sanitary sewer overflow from a manhole at 5601 S. Osage Street began Friday at 6:30 p.m. An estimated 50,000 gallons of wastewater spilled due to heavy rainfall. The spill was contained Friday at 11:15 p.m.

Cleanup procedures are complete, including vacuum removal of excess untreated wastewater and application of HTH to clean remaining residual wastewater.

The Texas Commission of Environmental Quality was notified and is working with the city to minimize environmental impacts.

The manhole on Osage had an earlier overflow Thursday at 5:30 a.m. when five lift stations backed up, causing a cascade effect and the release of 980,000 gallons of wastewater, as previously reported. That spill was contained at 2:45 p.m. Thursday.

For more information, contact City of Amarillo Media Relations Manager David Henry at (806) 378-5219 or by email at David.Henry@amarillo.gov.

This article originally appeared on Amarillo Globe-News: City of Amarillo contains wastewater spill from Osage Street overflow