This week's sewage spill situation is looking pretty bad and with more rain in the forecast for much of the country it's only get worse. Since it we're heading into a banner week for sewage spills the Slog is going to post a first round of spills today. Remember:

Rain + Combined Sewer Systems = Sewage in your Water.

Spills Part 1 for the week of November 11:

A Not-So-Clean Head: Officials were notified of a sewer manhole overflow at Seldon Street and Harris Avenue on Kane'ohe Marine Corps Base Hawai'i. The blockage was due to grease, the Clean Water Board said. A total of 1,000 gallons overflowed from the sewer manhole and entered a retention basin.
- November 10, 2007: Honolulu Advertiser - Honolulu, HI

Signs?...Why Signs?: A plastic bag filled with rags that blocked a pipe Sunday caused more than 8,000 gallons of sewage to spill from a manhole at 2432 Wilhelmina Rise. The city said that the sewage spill did not reach the ocean. The state Department of Health decided that it was not necessary to take water samples or post warning signs at any beach because, you know, it wasn't that bad! However, warning signs were posted along the path of the sewage flow, just in case people couldn't smell it.
- November 11, 2007: The Honolulu Advertiser - Honolulu, HI

Suck It Up!: The Gainesville Public Utilities Department Environmental Monitoring discovered a minor sewage spill near Brandon Place Monday morning. During a routine inspection of the area around 9:55 a.m. discoloration of the stream was noticed. Public Utility crews responded to the call and found the six inch gravity fed line was cracked. Crews contained the majority of the wastewater and removed the approximately 1,500 gallons using a Vac Truck. City staff estimated less than 200 gallons entered into Slaughterhouse Creek that leads into Lake Lanier.
- November 12, 2007: WDUN News/Talk 550 - Gainesville, GA

Huff and Puff and....uhgg: Five Tempe sewage plant workers became ill when sewer gas surged to dangerous levels Friday. The employees became ill after trying to block sewage that flows through a 12-foot-deep channel so they could inspect a damaged screen that filters the flow. As they were moving the barriers, a portable alarm sounded, indicating that hydrogen sulfide levels had reached 10 parts per million, a level at which the city requires employees to leave the building. The highest level reached 26 parts per million. The employees experienced diarrhea, headaches, sore eyes, fatigue and breathing problems.
- November 12, 2007, East Valley Tribune - Phoenix, AZ

The Great Outdoors: Seven hunters were sickened in Lake County, FL, after coming in contact with contaminated sewage while rounding up their dogs. Two hunters were hospitalized from the smell of the sewage illegally dumped in the Ocala National Forest, Orlando's WKMG-TV reported Monday. Crews were also working to decontaminate the sewage and the investigation was turned over the Division of Forestry officials.
- November 12, 2007: Untied Press International/WKMG-TV - Orlando, FL

Ahh...College: A sewage leak in the Free Expression Tunnel at N.C. State flooded in a large portion of the pathway. Facilities employees responded to the scene and said the flooding was caused by a backed-up sewer main. Natalie Bunch, a sophomore in landscape architecture, said when she walked through the tunnel around 11:30 a.m. there was stinky sewage every where but no one was preventing students from passing through. "You could see shards of toilet paper floating in the water so you knew it was sewage," Bunch said. "Two policemen were just standing there not really doing anything."
- November 13, 2007, Technician Online, N.C. State Student Media, Raleigh, N.C.

Funky Fountain: On Saturday, a manhole next to the Nethken family home started spewing raw sewage onto their property and into their home. The family lives in the Golden Terrace Community at W. Colfax and West. St. "The sewer backs up and it backs up into our house. And raw sewage comes into our tubs. It also goes all over our yard, where my kids play," says homeowner Lori Nethken. She says this is a reoccurring problem. "We've lived here about 3 years and it happens 3 to 4 times a year," says Nethken. Neighbors say it's a problem affecting not just the Nethkens, but the whole street. "I've actually seen it a couple times come out of the manhole cover, fountaining 2-and-a-half-feet straight up," says next-door neighbor Bill James. "It comes out from under their home, goes into the middle of the road, runs down the hill, all the way and around the corner."
-November 12, 2007: FOX 31/ myfoxcolorado.com - Denver, CO