City officials and the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality will analyze water samples.
Garland city officials say they’re seeing improved water clarity in a creek that turned murky earlier this week and alarmed residents in the area.
On Wednesday, residents found “cloudy water” in a creek just north of the intersection of Wood Drive and Lonnecker Drive, Garland city officials said in a Thursday evening Remediation efforts, which continued Thursday, have been focused on about a 1.9-mile stretch of the creek, roughly between Lonnecker Drive and Saturn Road, according to the post.Officials from the city’s water utilities and health departments reported “improved clarity,” the post stated, adding that crews “will continue throughout the night until the impacts have been remediated.”
“Fresh water being released upstream has helped to collect the impacted water so it can be drained in the effort to return the creek to its natural state,” the post stated.City officials and the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality will analyze water samples and continue investigating the source of the cloudy water.that the water “looked like snow at first.” A different resident told the news station that the water had a “chemical smell.
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