Sending it down the Mill Stream

On February 10, 2006 the public works department for Centreville Maryland pumped water and soil from a hole dug by a utility company after cutting through a water line. Water was pumped for roughly an hour into the gutter that runs to a storm drain and from the storm drain into the Mill Stream.

 

           

 

You can clearly see where dirty water mixes with the clear as it enters the Mill Stream.

 

 

 

 

 

            

 

600 feet down the stream from the mixing point.

 

The local paper the (Record Observer) reported that the soil that was sent into the storm drain was made up mostly of sand. This does not appear to be sand to me.