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200,000 gallons of sewage spilled into this Flowery Branch creek

A sewage pipe is exposed by recent heavy rains Monday, Nov. 19, 2018, along Sherwood Creek in the Reunion subdivision. The creek bank collapse caused the pipe to shift and begin to leak what amounted to 200,000 gallons of sewage into the creek. - photo by Scott Rogers

11202018 SEWAGE 1.jpg — A sewage pipe is exposed by recent heavy rains Monday, Nov. 19, 2018, along Sherwood Creek in the Reunion subdivision. The creek bank collapse caused the pipe to shift and begin to leak what amounted to 200,000 gallons of sewage into the creek. - photo by Scott Rogers

About 200,000 gallons of sewage has spilled into Sherwood Creek in Flowery Branch after a force main broke due to flooding.