North Bend reports sewage spill


Monday, April 13, 2009 | 11 comment(s)

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The Oregon Department of Agriculture has closed commercial oyster harvesting in Coos Bay following a Thursday morning sewage spill in North Bend.

Dawn Smith, food program manager with the Food Safety Division, said officials collected water samples Thursday night and could reopen harvesting as early as Saturday.

According to a press release from the City of North Bend, at about 9:30 a.m., 30,000 gallons of sewage discharged into the bay at the east end of Exchange Street after debris blocked a pipe causing a backup. Sewage overflowed a manhole and into a nearby storm-water catch basin.

City crews cleared the blockage by 10 a.m. and cleaned the area. The Oregon Spill Response, the Coos County Health Department, and the state departments of environmental quality and agriculture were notified.

Smith said the spill does not compare to one in January that dumped an estimated 500,000 gallons of partially treated waste into the bay.

As to clamming in the bay, she said the state agency doesn’t monitor recreational harvesting.

For more information, contact Bob Dillard at 756-6078.
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J wrote on Apr 12, 2009 9:27 PM:

Those Oysters are an invasive species, they should all be destroyed

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Att not for C.B wrote on Apr 12, 2009 11:42 AM:

Let me guess, first grade education? Missing a few of your front teeth? Standing on the corner hoping someone else can subsidize your income? Give it a rest already, your the type of person that always has to keep some thing going. The only thing Coos Bay did to you was put North Bend on the map.
Accidents happen people, thats why they call them "accidents".

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Local wrote on Apr 12, 2009 6:16 AM:

Oh another spill.I thought the last one was bad enough but now another.More wonderful Planning for the community. Will the E.P.A. site anyone or shine it on ?

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Crystal wrote on Apr 11, 2009 11:16 AM:

Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

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Good alert system wrote on Apr 11, 2009 9:01 AM:

If this spill was detected at 9:30 then by 9:35 there should have been a public service announcement broadcasted over the airwaves,but no not a word until Saturday.Way to go you morons...

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Local Yokal wrote on Apr 10, 2009 8:44 PM:

How Cool!!!! Our leaders continue to sabatoge one of the few remaining good businesses here, just don't make me have to listen to their wines about No Money, No Jobs and how their Food Banks are lacking food, let's feed them all that food that they just ruined!!!!

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Pigs dont care wrote on Apr 10, 2009 8:40 PM:

Another Funny Ha Ha!!!! Where did the tribal elders go????

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tsunami wrote on Apr 10, 2009 5:01 PM:

is that better late than never?

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Not for C.B. wrote on Apr 10, 2009 3:33 PM:

So sewage spilt into N.B. What happened did someone from coos bay drive into the north bend city limits.

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Umm wrote on Apr 10, 2009 2:06 PM:

Oh that's right I forgot. Someone bring the string I got the cans for our next "DUTY DUMP" alert warning.

These poor oyster harvesters are getting the shaft, lets subsidize them like we do our airport.

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 wrote on Apr 10, 2009 1:20 PM:

I thought that the clams and crabs that I harvested yesterday tasted funny.

Didn't a notification process go into effect after the last spill? If not, one certaily needs to be initiated.

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