(KRON) — The North Bay is still grappling with the impacts of an atmospheric river that brought heavy rainfall to the Bay Area the first week of January.
Sonoma Water (SW) responded to a spill of untreated wastewater at the Russian River Treatment Plant after heavy overnight rainfall overwhelmed the facility Tuesday, the agency wrote in a news release.
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The plant was receiving water flows at a rate of approximately four million gallons per day, and no additional storage capacity was available, according to SW. A portion of the discharge traveled through a forested area before reaching the Russian River.
The agency confirmed that river levels were elevated Tuesday morning, with flows exceeding 30,000 cubic feet per second at the Hacienda Bridge…