Two weeks after Henrico County officials reported the first of two sewer main breaks in Gillies Creek, which sent about 1.4 million gallons of sewage into the creek, another sewer spill occurred in Eastern Henrico.
The third and most recent incident happened at 8:43 a.m., Nov. 6 at the Almond Creek Waste Water Pump Station at 5700 Old Osborne Turnpike, according to a Virginia Department of Environmental Quality report.
The spill, which according to the DEQ report resulted from heavy rain and the malfunction of a bypass pump, entered Almond Creek and continued for about 39 minutes, until about 9:22 a.m…