Pasadena Area Creek Closed By Sewage Spill: Alert

PASADENA, MD — Residents are being warned not to swim or otherwise go into Wharf Creek , a tributary of Bodkin Creek in Pasadena. The Anne Arundel County Department of Health issued the advisory Monday afternoon and ordered an emergency closure of the waterway because of a sewage overflow.

Health authorities estimated between 18,000 and 24,000 gallons of sewage escaped from the inflow pipe leading to the holding tank at the Chesapeake High School Complex over the weekend. The closing will remain in effect until Monday, April 1, according to a news release.

The Department of Health posted warning signs along the creek. People coming in contact with the affected water should immediately wash well with soap and warm water. Contaminated clothing should also be washed.

For more information about the closing, call the Department of Health’s Recreational Water Quality Monitoring Program at 410-222-7241 or visit the department's website, www.aahealth.org.

Subscribers to the Department's Water Quality Email Alerts will receive email notifying them when county waterways are closed. Alerts can also be received by following the Department of Health on Twitter at www.twitter.com/aahealth_water.