Battery Creek shellfish bed closure expected to last three weeks in wake of sewer spill

A Battery Creek shellfish bed will be closed for at least three weeks after a sewer spill last week near Shell Point in northern Beaufort County.

State health and environmental officials closed the bed for 21 days, a Beaufort-Jasper Water & Sewer Authority news release said. The water overflowed into the marsh off of Dowlingwood Drive on Thursday after a power failure on a service line, the utility reported.

Water samples showed no further cleanup is necessary, BJWSA said, but the beds were closed as a precaution.

This story was originally published February 20, 2017 at 8:37 AM with the headline "Battery Creek shellfish bed closure expected to last three weeks in wake of sewer spill."