Although sanitary sewer overflows do occur while operating a sanitary sewer system, they are never acceptable to the District who remains committed to ensuring a safe and reliable wastewater collection and treatment system for unincorporated Clark County,\u201d<\/strong> Adler\u2019s statement said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\nThe Whitney Lift Station is located near Sam Boyd Stadium in the southeast Las Vegas Valley. It is one of 24 in Clark County operated by the CCWRD.<\/p>\n
The same treatment plant saw a failure in 2020, reportedly from a corroded pipe. That led to a 500K gallon sewage spill, KLAS<\/em> reported.<\/p>\nIt is unknown if the Nevada Department of Environmental Protection fined the reclamation district for the 2020 spill.<\/p>\n
In 2021, the district revealed in a report that \u201cThe Whitney Lift Station has experienced frequent outages due to equipment failures and line blockages putting the 22-year-old facility at high risk of sanitary sewer overflows.\u201d<\/p>\n
The station is scheduled to undergo renovations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Last week\u2019s overflow of 863K gallons of wastewater at a sewage treatment station near Nevada\u2019s Lake Mead was due to a valve not being fully closed, according to recent reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":276793,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[82013,81886],"tags":[83417,82017,23,86632],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
Sewage Spill Near Lake Mead Blamed on Partially Closed Valve<\/title>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n