The testing process is still on hold for a small tributary of Coal Creek east of the Emporia Municipal Airport and Emporia Golf Course.
The city of Emporia is awaiting word from the Kansas Department of Health and Environment on which test facilities are options for a specific E. coli test at a site south of Road 107 and east of Road M. The stream went into a health-related stream advisory May 19.
The test follows an odor complaint to KDHE and an investigation, which led to the discovery of an undetermined amount of biosolid in the stream and some that was too close to the stream, according to Emporia Public Works Director Dean Grant. The biosolid was hauled from Emporia’s Waste Water Treatment Plant to that site. The amount in question has not been divulged.
The advisory will continue until KDhE says water samples demonstrate no health risk. Residents will be advised of the testing and cleanup efforts to come, but they are not to go to the site or allow children or pets near there while the advisory continues.
