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No Unhealthy Contamination At Lake Wildwood

Posted: Apr. 8, 2016 5:57 PM PDT

No unhealthy levels of contamination have been found, after a sewage spill into Lake Wildwood last Wednesday. Nevada County Environmental Health Director Amy Irani says soil samples are showing total choliform levels well below the threshhold of 10-thousand millileters…

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So Irani says she expects Hideaway Park to re-open after the weekend, after all the sampling results are available…

click to listen to Amy Irani

Over one-thousand gallons of sewage spilled into Lake Wildwood, due to a ruptured line at a lift station. Irani says dissipation should be rapid, since the lake currently holds about 350-million gallons of water. She says she does not know what caused the rupture.

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