In mid-July, while automotive metal casting company Aludyne Foundry LLC was closing its shop and demolishing its business in Columbus, it spilled a notable amount of diesel fuel into Roaring Branch Creek.
The creek runs behind the Cracker Barrel and Starbucks on Bradley Park Drive and north of Belfast Avenue, near the North Columbus Industrial Park.
That discovery — not by a city official but by a volunteer with the watchdog group Chattahoochee Riverkeeper — prompted the Columbus Consolidated Government to issue a stop-work order to Aludyne’s demolition, demand the company pay fines and undergo investigations by the Georgia Environmental Protection Division for violating the Clean Water Act…