A warning from Georgia Riverkeepers after Hurricane Helene: stay out of the water.
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The state’s waterways are littered with debris and sewage after Hurricane Helene .
Channel 2′s investigative reporter Sophia Choi saw that first hand when she went to the South River in DeKalb County with Riverkeeper James Tingley who says all the garbage, chemicals and sewage from overwhelmed treatment plants end up in our rivers after storms. And that’s not all.
Tingley told Choi, “I’ll find dogs, goats, cats on the sides of the rivers, like up in the trees where they were trying to rescue themselves. And, they just died.”
The riverkeeper spent the last couple of days, checking North Georgia waterways.
At the Annistown Bridge over the Yellow River in Gwinnett County, he found trees still halfway underwater and rushing water at the Stone Mountain Dam in DeKalb County.
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