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Facility Name: Burlington Main    
Caller Name And Title: Laurie Adams, Assistant Director DPW Water Quality    
Municipality: Burlington    
Location (street or site): Pine Street near intersection with Lakeside Ave.    
Incident Start Date: 07/01/2015    
Incident End Date: 07/01/2015    
Incident Start End Times: 11:50 am and 4:20 pm    
Estimated Duration Of Event: 265 minutes (4 hours 25 minutes)    
Nature Of Incident: Discharged untreated sewage    
Estimated Volume (gallons): 11130    
Cause Of Discharge: High Flows    
Type Of Obstruction:    
Point Of Discharge: Manhole    
Corrective Action Taken: DPW staff set up a bypass pump to divert flow from the overflowing sewer to a parallel sewer when the level in the parallel sewer had adequately decreased. This prevented an additional 130 (2 hours 10 minutes) minutes or 5460 gallons of untreated sewage from being released.    
Waterbody Impacted: Barge Canal to Lake Champlain    
Contact Name And Title For Public: Laurie Adams, Assistant Director DPW Water Quality    
Call Date: 07/02/2015    
WW Staff Called: Jeff Fehrs    
Type Of Notification: E-Mail    
Public Overflow Report For Web: Y    
   
   
   
Description Of Incident: High flows caused by rain storms caused a combination of stormwater and untreated sewage to surcharge out of the top of the manhole. Estimated volume is the volume of untreated sewage and does not include the volume of stormwater.    
   
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