NEWS RELEASE

 

ANDREW J. SPANO, Westchester County Executive

JOSHUA LIPSMAN, M.D., M.P.H., Commissioner of Health

WESTCHESTER COUNTY, Department of Health


For immediate release: 

July 26, 2000


FOR MORE INFORMATION

Contact Mary Landrigan

(914 637-4715
 



 

The Westchester County Department of Health was today notified that, due to excessive rainfall, the Beach Avenue sewage pump station and the Flint Avenue sewage pump station in the Village of Larchmont had reached their capacity at around 4 pm.  Rain-diluted sewage is being chlorinated and discharged into the Long Island Sound.

 

This is considered a Level I event.  There is no public health threat from this event.

 

 

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