Flint Riverkeeper sues City of Griffin over sewage pollution

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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