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North Carolina sewage discharges, December 2023
108 records of sewage discharges and water advisories in North Carolina dated in December 2023, newest first. Each record keeps the source's own times and wording.
Source: the agencies, sewer operators and EPA records named on each row and on the Sources page. Updated 2026-11-05 06:27 UTC.
Sanitary sewer overflow (SSO): sewage spills from a sewer meant to carry sewage separately from rainwater. Cyanobacteria (harmful blue-green algae) can make water unfit for contact; the issuing authority decides when its advisory ends.
| When | Report | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Gastonia Collection System · Long Creek · SSO · 600 gallons · notice · map | ended | |
| Charlotte Water Collection System · McAlpine Creek · SSO · 10,760 gallons · notice · map | ended | |
| Raleigh Collection System · Southwest Prong Beaverdam Creek · Released from manhole to Southprong Beaverdam Creek. · SSO · 1,100 gallons · notice · map | ended | |
| Greensboro Collection System · Big Alamance Creek · SSO · 3,600 gallons · notice · map | ended | |
| Winston-Salem Collection System · “Mill Creek” · From manhole, no # given · SSO · 300 gallons · notice · map | ended | |
| Charlotte Water Collection System · West Branch Rocky River · SSO · 10,800 gallons · notice · map | ended | |
| Cary Collection System · “Camp Branch” · SSO · 523 gallons · notice · map | ended | |
| CFPUA · “Greenfield Lake” · Sewer outfall adjacent to Coastal Urology office · SSO · 780 gallons · notice · map | ended | |
| Asheboro Collection System · Gabriels Creek · force main · SSO · 4,500 gallons · notice · map | ended | |
| Rocky Mount Collection System · Tar River · Manhole overflowing to Tar River · SSO · 52,500 gallons · notice · map | ended | |
| Newton Collection System · Clark Creek · SSO · 661,560 gallons · notice · map | ended | |
| Shallotte Collection System · Woodward Branch · SSO · 1,500 gallons · notice · map | ended | |
| Jacksonville Collection System · Mill Creek · Overflow at manhole · SSO · 500 gallons · notice · map | ended | |
| Shelby Collection System · Hickory Creek · SSO · 22,500 gallons · notice · map | ended | |
| Jacksonville Collection System · New River · Overflow at manhole · SSO · 700 gallons · notice · map | ended | |
| Roanoke Rapids Sanitary District · Roanoke River · Released from manhole to UT to Roanoke River · SSO · 30,000 gallons · notice · map | ended | |
| Burke County Collection System · Drowning Creek · Lift station · SSO · 13,500 gallons · notice · map | ended | |
| Shelby Collection System · First Broad River · SSO · 10,500 gallons · notice · map | ended | |
| Thomasville Collection System · North Hamby Creek · SSO · 130 gallons · notice · map | ended | |
| Asheboro Collection System · Vestal Creek · Lift station · SSO · 38,000 gallons · notice · map | ended | |
| Roanoke Rapids Sanitary District · Released from manhole to stormdrain. · SSO · 1,500 gallons · notice · map | ended | |
| Shelby Collection System · First Broad River · SSO · 333,000 gallons · notice · map | ended | |
| Shelby Collection System · Brushy Creek · SSO · 51,750 gallons · notice · map | ended | |
| Sanford Collection System · Little Buffalo Creek · Released from manhole to UT to Little Buffalo Creek · SSO · 90 gallons · notice · map | ended | |
| Liberty Collection System · Rocky River · Kinro Road · SSO · 4,800 gallons · notice · map | ended | |
| Ramseur Collection System · Deep River · SSO · 10,000 gallons · notice · map | ended | |
| Liberty Collection System · “Unnamed tributary to Sandy Creek” · Johnson Lift Station · SSO · 1,800 gallons · notice · map | ended | |
| Shelby Collection System · First Broad River · SSO · 480,000 gallons · notice · map | ended | |
| Liberty Collection System · Rocky River · West Kime Avenue · SSO · 2,400 gallons · notice · map | ended | |
| Liberty Collection System · Rocky River · SSO · 2,400 gallons · notice · map | ended | |
| Albemarle Collection System · Mountain Creek · SSO · 8,000 gallons · notice · map | ended | |
| Albemarle Collection System · Mountain Creek · SSO · 5,000 gallons · notice · map | ended | |
| Albemarle Collection System · Melchor Branch · SSO · 500 gallons · notice · map | ended | |
| Gastonia Collection System · “UT” · SSO · 1,500 gallons · notice · map | ended | |
| Belmont Collection System · “South Fork Catawba River” · SSO · 9,900 gallons · notice · map | ended | |
| Lowell Collection System · South Fork Catawba River · Primary lift Station to the Lowell WWTP · SSO · 29,000 gallons · notice · map | ended | |
| City of Saluda Collection System · Cove Creek · SSO · 1,800 gallons · notice · map | ended | |
| Hickory Collection System · SSO · 3,780 gallons · notice · map | ended | |
| Yadkin Valley Sewer Authority WWTP · Yadkin River · SSO · 940 gallons · notice · map | ended | |
| Valdese Collection System · Cline Street Pump Station · SSO · 10,000 gallons · notice · map | ended | |
| Durham Collection System · Northeast Creek · Overflowed to creek · SSO · 14,400 gallons · notice · map | ended | |
| Lenoir Collection System · Little Gunpowder Creek · SSO · 500 gallons · notice · map | ended | |
| Taylorsville Collection System · Glade Creek · SSO · 3,200 gallons · notice · map | ended | |
| Brevard Collection System · French Broad River · SSO · 2,800 gallons · notice · map | ended | |
| Spindale Collection System · Stonecutter Creek · Headworks of Oak Street pump station. · SSO · 3,500 gallons · notice · map | ended | |
| Tryon Collection System · Vaughn Creek · Manhole · SSO · 9,000 gallons · notice · map | ended | |
| Winston-Salem Collection System · Blanket Creek · Sewer Main 2672 · SSO · 115 gallons · notice · map | ended | |
| Winston-Salem Collection System · “Little Creek” · Sewer Main 50270 · SSO · 2,330 gallons · notice · map | ended | |
| MSD of Buncombe County · Lake Julian · SSO · 249 gallons · notice · map | ended | |
| Fuquay-Varina Collection System · Middle Creek · PVC Force Main Line · SSO · 2,050 gallons · notice · map | ended | |
| NC DEQ Division of Water Resources (fish kill and algal bloom reports) · “Fairfield Harbor storm water pond” · Algae advisory · volume not reported · notice · map | reported | |
| Angier Collection System · SSO · 7,500 gallons · notice · map | ended | |
| Greensboro Collection System · North Buffalo Creek · SSO · 750 gallons · notice · map | ended | |
| Weldon Collection System · Chockoyotte Creek · Lift station 158 at outfall · SSO · 10,829 gallons · notice · map | ended | |
| Winston-Salem Collection System · Brushy Fork · SSO · 850 gallons · notice · map | ended | |
| Wilson Collection System · Hominy Swamp · SSO · 200 gallons · notice · map | ended | |
| Fairmont Collection System · SSO · 8,000 gallons · notice · map | ended | |
| Roanoke Rapids Sanitary District · Roanoke River · Intersection of Land Street and Laurel · SSO · 84,000 gallons · notice · map | ended | |
| Rocky Mount Collection System · Little Cokey Swamp · Only street name was provided · SSO · 8,100 gallons · notice · map | ended | |
| Rocky Mount Collection System · Tar River · Only street name was provided. · SSO · 16,200 gallons · notice · map | ended | |
| Lumberton Collection System · Lumber River · SSO · 55,500 gallons · notice · map | ended | |
| Mount Olive Collection System · Northeast Cape Fear River · 408 Wilkins Farm Road, Mt. Olive WWTP at the influent Pump Station · SSO · 1.14 million gallons · notice · map | ended | |
| Roanoke Rapids Sanitary District · Roanoke River · SSO · 600 gallons · notice · map | ended | |
| Shallotte Collection System · Woodward Branch · SSO · 13,370 gallons · notice · map | ended | |
| Hertford Collection System · Jennies Gut · SSO · 10,000 gallons · notice · map | ended | |
| Roanoke Rapids Sanitary District · Roanoke River · SSO · 9,000 gallons · notice · map | ended | |
| Roanoke Rapids Sanitary District · Roanoke River · SSO · 18,900 gallons · notice · map | ended | |
| Ramseur Collection System · Deep River · At West Ridge Pump Station · SSO · 10,000 gallons · notice · map | ended | |
| Harnett County Collection System · Thorntons Creek · Lift Station #4 · SSO · 6,000 gallons · notice · map | ended | |
| Franklin County Public Utilities · Richland Creek · SSO · 16,500 gallons · notice · map | ended | |
| Asheboro Collection System · Vestal Creek · 15 Richland Pl · SSO · 27,500 gallons · notice · map | ended | |
| Harnett County Collection System · Cape Fear River · Lift Station 25 · SSO · 1,000 gallons · notice · map | ended | |
| Harnett County Collection System · Stewart Creek · 413 S. Denise Street, coats nc 27521 · SSO · 9,000 gallons · notice · map | ended | |
| Albemarle Collection System · Mountain Creek · SSO · 9,000 gallons · notice · map | ended | |
| Liberty Collection System · Rocky River · SSO · 8,400 gallons · notice · map | ended | |
| Bladenboro Collection System · Bryant Swamp · SSO · 3,000 gallons · notice · map | ended | |
| Harnett County Collection System · Cape Fear River · Lift Station 26 · SSO · 1,000 gallons · notice · map | ended | |
| Asheboro Collection System · Cedar Fork Creek · Pump Station #4 · SSO · 4,380 gallons · notice · map | ended | |
| Albemarle Collection System · Mountain Creek · SSO · 3,600 gallons · notice · map | ended | |
| Ramseur Collection System · Reed Creek Pump Station · SSO · 3,000 gallons · notice · map | ended | |
| Charlotte Water Collection System · McMullen Creek · SSO · 500 gallons · notice · map | ended | |
| Charlotte Water Collection System · Paw Creek · SSO · 455 gallons · notice · map | ended | |
| Durham Collection System · Third Fork Creek · SSO · 810 gallons · notice · map | ended | |
| Kinston Collection System · Yadkin Branch · SSO · 88 gallons · notice · map | ended | |
| Charlotte Water Collection System · “West Branch Rocky River” · SSO · 1,467 gallons · notice · map | ended | |
| Raleigh Collection System · “Big Branch” · 700 Green ridge drive · SSO · 190 gallons · notice · map | ended | |
| Town of Spruce Pine · Graveyard Creek · SSO · 200 gallons · notice · map | ended | |
| Raleigh Collection System · Hare Snipe Creek · SSO · 1,335 gallons · notice · map | ended | |
| Washington Collection System · Jacks Creek · SSO · 100 gallons · notice · map | ended | |
| Winston-Salem Collection System · Reedy Fork · Sewer manhole in front of 738 Graves St. · SSO · 50 gallons · notice · map | ended | |
| Charlotte Water Collection System · Caldwell Station Creek · SSO · 51 gallons · notice · map | ended | |
| Raleigh Collection System · Big Branch · SSO · 2,040 gallons · notice · map | ended | |
| Mebane Collection System · “Moadams Creek (Latham Lake)” · Fieldstone Pump Station · SSO · 17,400 gallons · notice · map | ended | |
| Raleigh Collection System · Southwest Prong Beaverdam Creek · SSO · 325 gallons · notice · map | ended | |
| Franklin County Public Utilities · Richland Creek · 391 Southwest Railroad street · SSO · 14,000 gallons · notice · map | ended | |
| Thomasville Collection System · Hanks Branch · SSO · 6,000 gallons · notice · map | ended | |
| Brevard Collection System · French Broad River · SSO · 11,250 gallons · notice · map | ended | |
| Durham Collection System · “Sandy Creek” · SSO · 458,000 gallons · notice · map | ended | |
| Charlotte Water Collection System · Steele Creek · 14201 Laughing Gull Drive Charlotte · SSO · 386 gallons · notice · map | ended | |
| Raleigh Collection System · Richland Creek · SSO · 2,530 gallons · notice · map | ended | |
| Kinston Collection System · Neuse River · intersection of Blount Street and Mitchell Street, Kinston, NC · SSO · 1 gallon · notice · map | ended | |
| Bessemer City Collection System · Abernethy Creek · 707 South 6th Street, Bessember City · SSO · 60,480 gallons · notice · map | ended | |
| Kannapolis Collection System · Cold Water Creek · 1016 Dakota Street Kannaoplis · SSO · 85 gallons · notice · map | ended | |
| Carolina Trace Collection System · “Upper Little River (including Lake Trace below elevation 257 MSL) (5)” · SSO · 1,500 gallons · notice · map | ended | |
| Raleigh Collection System · Rocky Creek · MH in easement · SSO · 4,680 gallons · notice · map | ended | |
| Morganton Collection System · Hunting Creek · Fletcher street outfall · SSO · 720 gallons · notice · map | ended | |
| Asheboro Collection System · “UT” · SSO · 2,800 gallons · notice · map | ended | |
| Greensboro Collection System · South Buffalo Creek · SSO · 2,500 gallons · notice · map | ended |
Sources: NC DWR Sanitary Sewer Overflows September 2022 through December 2025 (ArcGIS), retrieved 2026-11-04 06:57 UTC; NC DEQ Fish Kills and Algal Blooms public reports (Fish_Kill_Algal_Bloom_Public_View), retrieved 2026-11-04 06:57 UTC. A report's record id and times show when you hover or focus its "report" link.