Almost 20,000 gallons of sewage spill into DeKalb creek

DeKalb County’s sewer problems struck again Tuesday, spilling more than 19,950 gallons of raw sewage into Snapfinger Creek.

County officials said the spill was not weather-related, but the result of a grease blockage that caused sewage to overflow from a manhole. The spill occurred Tuesday afternoon at the Mountain Crest Apartments on North Hairston Road in Stone Mountain,

Last month, the federal Environmental Protection Agency issued a consent decree mandating DeKalb improve its water and sewer system after the county reported more than 800 raw sewage spills in the last five years.