The City of Greensboro faces more than $24,000 in state fines for carbon monoxide emissions that were as much as 11 times higher than federal limits at its sewer treatment plant.

In an Aug. 21 notice to the city, North Carolina Division of Air Quality Director Michael Abraczinskas noted five violations of the U.S. Clean Air Act at Greensboro’s T.Z. Osborne Water Reclamation Facility, northeast of the interchange of Interstate 840 and U.S. 70.

The exceedances, all in November 2024, were linked to issues with a pump used to transport sludge, the city reported in a letter to NCDEQ.

“We are currently in the design phase for some major maintenance repairs on (the sludge incinerator) and replacement of the … pump controls,” Bradley Flynt, water reclamation superintendent of the T.Z. Osborne f

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