Putting the numb in numbskulls

Some of the most beautiful places I've been to in my life are the far southwestern parts of North Carolina. Specifically, the counties of Jackson, Macon, Swain, Cherokee and Graham. Graham County is home to the so-green-you'll-think-it's-not-real Lake Santeetlah.

It is also apparently home to some ignorant numbskulls who don't mind crapping their own beds.

Authorities have determined what was dumped into a creek that feeds Lake Santeeltah and who did it. From JDNews:

Leaders of a western North Carolina town blamed some of its workers Friday for dumping sludge from its drinking water treatment plant near a local creek instead of into the town's sewer system, causing a mess [Roch: and a fish kill] and potential sanctions from the state.

Robbinsville town leaders said in a news release Friday they deeply regretted what they called an improper discharge Wednesday in or near Long Creek, which flows into Lake Santeetlah in Graham County. The state Division of Water Quality estimated as much as 4,000 gallons of sludge could have been deposited in a stormwater ditch that flows to the creek.