Raw Sewage Spill

Industrial Seaway and Bernard Bayou remain under a water advisory after a big raw sewage spill in Gulfport.

As news 25’s Gina Tomlinson reports, city crews have managed to contain the spill, but it’s still causing some of the residents to raise a stink about it.

Sandy likes to go on walks outside.
But Sandy’s owner Adrian Loomis plans to keep her indoors for now. Since 500,000 gallons of sewage leaked into water-ways right by their Gulfport home.

“Is it going to kill your animals if they come outside…There’s a lot that can happen to you when you mess with feces.”
– Adrian Loomis

A water advisory is in effect for the industrial seaway and Bernard Bayou after a pipe burst causing the half a million gallons of raw sewage to spill by Glascock Drive in Gulfport.

Public works crews were able to contain Monday’s spill by Wednesday morning.

“The fact that it was a 24 inch force main coming off of a big lift station off seaway island that was our problem, trying to get the flow down.”
– Wayne Miller

But there’s still work to be done…

“It smells literally like feces, like you’re living in a sewage pool.”
– Adrian Loomis

Missy Rodriguez has lived on these waters all her life.

“That waterway is so beneficial who spend time outside who don’t go out front”
– Missy Rodriguez

“Some of the sewage flowed into drains and ditches leading into Bernard Bayou a waterway the Rodriguez family says they love to enjoy.”
– Gina Tomlinson

“Very active, the children do wake boarding. We like to ride our wave runners through; we just enjoy the beauty and the nature of the animals.”
– Missy Rodriguez

Gulfport’s public works director say city crews continue to work round the clock … Now cleaning up the run off….

“The crew that was onsite at five o’clock was still there at 1 o’ clock this morning they had not gone home yet.”
– Wayne Miller

Authorities will continue to test the water and will lift the water advisory when it’s safe

In Gulfport Gina Tomlinson News 25.