Bangor officials ask for caution when draining personal pools
7:23 PM, May 13, 2013   |    comments   • Share   • Print   • -
A A A +  BANGOR, Maine (NEWS CENTER)--The city of Bangor knows
that people will soon be getting their pools ready for the
summer. That's why the city is starting a campaign to remind
people that draining pools into catch basins or storm drains can
do a lot of damage to local rivers and streams.  Wynne Guglielmo
is the environmental coordinator for the city of Bangor. She
says there is a lot of confusion out there on the difference
between a catch basin or storm drain and the city sewer system
and they want people to understand the difference.  Guglielmo
said, "Products that get discharged in to a sanitary sewer are
handled by the waste water treatment plant. However a storm
sewer or catch basin, you can see the open grate, they come in
various sizes, round or square. And everything that flows in
here go directly to a water body."  Bangor has 6 streams that
are listed as impaired right