Leak sends 100,000 gallons of sewage into Central Kentucky creek

Officials are still monitoring the waters of Elkhorn Creek after a pressurized sewer line sprung a leak in Scott County Saturday, spewing an estimated 100,000 gallons of raw sewage into the waterway.

As of Tuesday, lab results showed “a ‘high normal’ concentration” of sewage in the creek, according to Michael Hennigan, director of the Georgetown/Scott County Emergency Management Agency.

He said in a Facebook post that the water would be tested daily “until everything shows normal.”

The Kentucky Energy and Environment Cabinet said in a Facebook post that the Georgetown waste water treatment plant had “estimated that the leak was intermittently pumping 600 gallons per minute for approximately 12 hrs” before it was discovered on Saturday.

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