Pahrump’s poop in golf course water pond
Willow Creek Golf Course
Some Pahrump residents with their home ringing around lakefront property and a golf course in your backyard say raw sewage is being pumped into ponds next to their homes.
Ponds at Pahrump’s Willow Creek Golf Course are ringed with dead fish. There is a brown sludge that coats the edge as a thick film. Underneath this slime and the bottom of one pond is suddenly rising. Residents say it is three feet deep in human waste.
“I want to barf. I want to barf,” said resident Richard Cantino.
The owner of Willow Creek went bankrupt, but not before making a deal with the neighboring water treatment plant to let them pump “gray water” into the ponds, mixed in with clean water, to help recycle.
“It’s pretty disgusting to live around it. We shouldn’t have to smell it. We shouldn’t have to live with this. And what they do is pump it from one pond to another and distribute it about so everybody can enjoy the effects of it,” said resident Blair Childs.
Curtis Moen, the golf course maintenance man, added:
“Over these last eight months, we’ve seen a lot of solids — fecal matter. We’ve had that matter tested, had the ponds tested. In fact, it comes back with an amount of fecal matter that’s off the charts — off the testing limits — beyond what they can test for. There’s supposed to be 2.2 colonies per million. We’re getting 1,600 or greater, which is beyond the testable amount.”
The mess
Three of the bordering residents have filed a class action lawsuit against Utilies, Inc., who they claim is responsible for the stinky problem. (See the lawsuit).
The lawsuit also alleges fecal matter is seeping into the groundwater.
Utilities, Inc., has issued a statement to the media:
“Utilities Inc. of Central Nevada is in full compliance of all local, state and federal regulations relating to our treatment plant adjacent to the Willow Creek Golf Course.”
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