Crews with the Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District (MSD) and Hunt Vac Services, a private contracted crew hired by MSD, are at the site of a sewage overflow that occurred at a Pump Station on the Bridgeton Landfill property, which is owned and operated by MSD.
Early this afternoon an MSD Pump Station Technician visited the Pump Station for a regular routine inspection and discovered that the Pump Station was not operating. This Pump Station located on the property of the Bridgeton Landfill takes the sewage from Bridgeton Landfill’s pre-treatment facility and puts into a force main that eventually leads to the Bissell Pointe Wastewater Treatment Plant located along the Mississippi River.
The Technician immediately took steps to restart the pump station. However while the pump station was not operating about 11 thousand gallons of sewage overflowed from manhole into a contained ditch on the Bridgeton Landfill property. The overflow did not go into any area waterways; it has been contained on the Bridgeton Landfill property.
It is not yet known at this time how long the Bridgeton Pump Station was not operating, nor has a caused been determined.
There is no immediate threat to public health or safety, the sewage is contained on Bridgeton Landfill private property. MSD crews and contractors will continue to work throughout the night and into the morning cleaning up the sewage overflow.
The sewage overflow was reported to the Missouri Department of Natural Resources, as required by law.
MSD understands the community’s concerns about the Bridgeton Landfill and its operations. Over the coming days MSD will broadly share further information on this incident as it becomes available.