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City reports major wastewater spill
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The City of Hinesville reported a major spill of 11.12 million gallons of partially treated wastewater occurred at the Fort Stewart Water Pollution Control Plant on Monday.

The facility discharges to an unnamed tributary leading to Taylors Creek, and on this day, the total suspended solids of 66 mg/l leaving the facility exceeded the spill threshold of 25 mg/l set by EPD. The spill was due to stormwater entering the collection system during an excessive rainfall event.

Georgia EPD, Fort Stewart Environmental, and the Liberty County Health Department have been notified of the spill.

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Early morning accident in McIntosh County kills five
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Five people were killed and another one was injured following a two-vehicle accident in McIntosh County on Sunday morning.

Witnesses told Georgia State Patrol Trooper Christopher Ashdown that a Jeep Cherokee was traveling south on Interstate 95 at a high rate of speed when it rear-ended an Infiniti. The Cherokee hit a guard rail, bursting into flames. The crash and ensuing fire killed one adult and four children.

The driver of the Jeep Cherokee has been identified a Reagan Dougan, 27. GSP troopers have learned she rented the vehicle in Raleigh, N.C., and was heading to Florida to meet her husband. The children were a 9-year-old boy, a 4-year-old boy, a 2-year-old girl and a 3-month-old boy.

Ashdown said the Cherokee was a rental and authorities are in the process of identifying the victims.  The driver of the Infiniti, from Long County, was transported to Southeast Regional Health System in Brunswick with non-life-threatening injuries.

The accident occurred at mile marker 62 around 6 a.m.

 

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