{"id":367945,"date":"2026-03-31T17:52:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T17:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/367945\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T17:52:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T17:52:11","slug":"over-70000-gallons-of-sewage-released-into-genesee-river-in-wellsville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/367945\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 70,000 gallons of sewage released into Genesee River in Wellsville"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Overnight power \u201cflicker\u201d blamed for seven hours of unchecked outflow<\/p>\n<p>By Andrew Harris<\/p>\n<p>Village of Wellsville Department of Public Works issued a notice this morning after finding that a major overflow from water treatment facility on the Bolivar Road occurred overnight.  <\/p>\n<p>DPW chief Dean Arnold explained that the accidental release of approximately 71,500 gallons from the Waste Water Treatment Plant as caused by \u201ca power flicker from an incoming power line to the village.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The specifc failure was reported as a \u201cVFD\u201d or a Variable Frequency Drive. Electrical-World.com explains what a VFD is:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA\u00a0Variable Frequency Drive (VFD), also known as an adjustable frequency drive (AFD) or variable speed drive (VSD), is an electronic device that controls the speed and torque of AC motors by varying the frequency and voltage of the power supplied to the motor.<\/p>\n<p>Think of it as a sophisticated dimmer switch for your motors \u2013 but instead of just controlling brightness, it precisely manages speed, acceleration, and energy consumption.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"637\" height=\"444\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/piccoad.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21320\" style=\"width:483px;height:auto\"  \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Overnight power \u201cflicker\u201d blamed for seven hours of unchecked outflow By Andrew Harris Village of Wellsville Department of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":367946,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[242,85,46,141],"class_list":["post-367945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}