Source: Lynn Bonner, NEWS & OBSERVER, 9/9/19


Rain from Hurricane Dorian have triggered a 640,000-gallon sewage spill into a Johnston County creek, county officials reported. The untreated sewage flowed into Mill Creek from a location in Selma for more than seven hours on Friday, according to a county news release. Mill Creek flows into the Neuse River. In an interview Monday, Johnston’s Public Utilities Director Chandra Cox Farmer said more than five and a half inches of rain fell in Johnston last week, causing stormwater to get into the wastewater collection system.

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