About 14,000 gallons of untreated wastewater overflowed into the South Platte River today but crews were able to contain it.
The water spewed from a treatment plant of the Metro Wastewater Reclamation District near 64th Avenue and York Street in Denver.
Crews were able to build a berm around the area to contain it and pump the water back to the plant for treatment.
The water was being tested for bacteria and downstream water users were notified, said Steve Frank, spokesman for the district.
The amount of untreated that got out water was “very small,” Frank said.
It was diluted by about 240,000 gallons of river water rushing by, he said, and the 14,000 gallons is about 1/100th of 1 percent of the total amount treated there daily, which is 140 million gallons.
