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| Prison told to keep trash out of sewage |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 03/08/2004 |
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State environmental regulators are ordering the S.C. Corrections Department to clean up its act at a prison in Kershaw, where townspeople complain inmates are dumping trash into the sewer system. The Department of Health and Environmental Control is giving the agency six months to improve its system for removing large objects from the sewage that Kershaw Correctional Institution sends to the town's wastewater-treatment plant. If Corrections officials don't address the problem, the environmental agency could charge a fine, said enforcement officer Anastasia Hunter-Shaw. Hunter-Shaw is drafting a letter ordering the prison to repair a bar screen that removes large objects from the waste stream and maintain the prison's part of the wastewater system so it doesn't cause problems for the town, she said. The Kershaw facility is the largest medium-level security prison in South Carolina. The bathroom etiquette of its inmates, which now number roughly 1,450, has frustrated Kershaw for years, said town administrator Tony Starnes. In 2002 the prison reported two spills that sent sewage flowing from manholes. The first amounted to about 2,000 gallons; the second, less than 1,000. Some of the sewage entered a nearby creek. Flushed objects created blockages that caused the overflows, Hunter-Shaw said. In 2002, the Corrections Department agreed to stop future spills or face an $8,000 fine. |
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