Updated on Jan. 8, 2020 at 11:00 a.m.
Local aquatic health scientists are expressing their disappointment and concerns after a recent sewage spill in Newport News forced the Hampton Roads Sanitation District to divert 29 million gallons of raw wastewater into the James River and surrounding tributaries.
“It’s unfortunate,” said Kim Reece, who studies aquatic health at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science. “It’s tragic actually.”
Corrosion in a downtown Newport News sewage line caused it to break Monday, spilling raw wastewater into 16th Street between Garden Drive and Walnut Avenue. Sewage flowed into people’s yards and HRSD closed off parts of the area.
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Christina Laughlin usually does whatever she can to avoid the flooding that plagues her neighborhood in Norfolk, Virginia, on the Chesapeake Bay. But on a blustery Sunday morning in October 2019, she donned a windbreaker and rain boots, grabbed her battered smartphone, and deliberately headed straight to the high-water line.
Like her, hundreds of other locals were out and about that day, busy taking photos of the water and linking them to GPS markers during the year s highest astronomical tide, known as the king tide. Norfolk is one of several eastern U.S. coastal cities with record rates of sea level rise, and scientists hope that the data collected by these citizen scientists can help hone the ability to forecast exactly when and where damaging floods will occur.