Ick: Power outage leads to sewage overflow in Maryland

When it rains, it pours. And now, this: A hurricane-related power outage in Maryland has caused a sewage overflow at the Little Patuxent Water plant in Howard County.

Millions of gallons of raw sewage overflowing into river in #HoCo : http://t.co/5U6JN0Sa

— Kevin Rector (@kevrector) October 30, 2012

Raw sewage overflowing into river in Howard Co. http://t.co/w7acLixD

— Sun Latest News (@BaltSunBrk) October 30, 2012

https://twitter.com/jakeacarpenter/status/263222480888545280

The raw sewage overflowing into the Little Patuxent is going unchecked at least until 5 am when @MyBGE can get employees into bucket trucks

— Kevin Rector (@kevrector) October 30, 2012

Er, good advice:

Avoid the Little Patuxent River south of Route 32 people. #rawsewage

— Kevin Rector (@kevrector) October 30, 2012