The Flint Riverkeeper, represented by the Southern Environmental Law Center, is suing the City of Griffin for discharging polluted wastewater and sewage into a tributary of the Flint River, which serves as a drinking water source for south metro Atlanta.
Flint Riverkeeper Gordon Rogers said that Griffin, like a lot of cities, has stormwater leaching in through cracks in its pipes and increasing use and burden on its sewage system.
“The system, between infiltration due to age and over-subscription, I’ll call it, is belching sewage under the right rainfall conditions,” Rogers said.
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