BRANDON, Fla. — Hillsborough County is working to clean up a problem that has caused 17 million gallons of partially-treated wastewater to leak at its Falkenburg Advanced Wastewater Treatment Facility.
The problem started Sunday night, and a clog in the filtration process sent water to overflow the tanks and into a nearby stormwater ditch. While most of the problem was contained early Monday morning, there have been leaks since.
10 Investigates learned that the county is also trying to find who’s responsible for dumping some sort of industrial cleaning agent two different times, which caused the pH levels to spike, throwing the system off…