State officials are monitoring water quality in an area of Duplin County where tens of thousands of gallons of hog waste spilled into an unnamed tributary and a named creek that flow into the Northeast Cape Fear River.
An estimated 84,000 gallons spilled from Murphy Brown LLC Farm off Kenan Loop Road in Wallace after equipment pumping waste between lagoons malfunctioned, according to the N.C. Department of Environmental Quality.
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State Division of Water Resources staff were alerted last weekend of the spill, which began early Saturday and continued through early Sunday with hog waste reaching the unnamed tributary of Doctors Creek.
“The permittee removed waste from the unnamed tributary and returned it to a secondary lagoon on the farm site,” according to a DEQ release.
Division staff have confirmed the cleanup and collected samples at the discharge point, upstream and downstream to check water quality impacts.
There are no known public water intakes along the path of the spill, according to DEQ.
Water quality in the area will continue to be monitored by division officials. Any actions taken as a result of the spill are to be posted about online, officials said.
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