Grease caused more than 4,000 gallons of sewage to spill into a Gwinnett County creek this week, officials said.
According to information released by the Gwinnett County Department of Water Resources, the spill started Tuesday at a manhole on the 100 block of Clarion Road in Lawrenceville, not far from Collins Hill Road and the high school of the same name. It took nearly two hours to stop the overflow.
By that time, an estimated 4,136 gallons of sewage had entered "an unnamed tributary of Little Suwanee Creek."
Officials raked the area and spread lime, the county said. The Georgia Environmental Protection Division was notified.
The incident marks the second sewage spill in Gwinnett County in less than a week. On April 14, more than 100 gallons spilled into a creek near Buford.
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