Sewage Basin Breech Into Hickory Creek

[yummysmokedham]

Wonder how this will affect the fishing on Hickory:

http://www.joplinglobe.com/local/x1940319525/Neosho-officials-assessing-cause-of-basin-wall-collapse

Where at on Hickory Creek is the sewage treatment facility that had the breech?

[Stoneroller]

it will destroy that fishery for a few years.

[Buzz]

The treatment plant is located near the end of Hickory Creek just below where it dumps into Shoal Creek.I'm not sure of the impact it will have on Shoal Creek, but Hickory should be okay. I'm sure it's already flushed out. I'm glad it happened when there was a lot of water flowing. I'm more worried about what will happen if we have another big rain event. I hope Neosho, at least, builds up an earthen dam around the breech to at least slow any run off until they fix the containment pond.

[ollie]

For those who do not know, the facilty is downstream closer to Shoal Creek. It will not have any effect on the trout fishing or at least where they stock them farther upstream. I doubt that it really has much impact on anything actually. It was highly diluted sewage so I am thinking the parts per million would be very small. I do however think the contractor on this probably took short cuts knowing who the contractor was.