Iowa DNR News
Environmental Services Division
 
For immediate release                                                                                   Oct. 3, 2007 
 
 
BROKEN SEWER LINE RELEASES WASTEWATER TO IOWA RIVER IN CORALVILLE
 
MEDIA CONTACT: Jim Sievers at (319) 653-2135
 
CORALVILLE – About 6,000 gallons of wastewater flowed to Clear Creek which flows into the Iowa River in Coralville after a contractor cracked a sewer line Tuesday afternoon.
 
The contractor was removing a culvert as part of the Highway 6 widening project when he jack hammered into a sewer line that was under the culvert. 
 
The sewer line has been repaired. 
 
Downstream water supplies have been notified, along with the Iowa City School District and Coralville Parks.  
 
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