Sewage complaint investigated at Timberlake Rd. Burger King

WSLS
Published: November 18, 2008

The Virginia Department of Health is investigating a complaint of sewage backup at a Burger King on Timberlake Road in Campbell County.

A father said he witnessed the backup on Saturday in a drain in the children’s indoor playground area.

The health department confirmed the backup Monday morning.

VDH Environmental Health Supervisor Steve Simpson said the restaurant had permanently sealed the drain to prevent any more backups.

“Any time there is a possible sewage exposure that’s not a good thing,” Simpson said.

Simpson said, to his knowledge, no one had been exposed to anything that came out of the drain.

He said his inspector was more concerned about an inoperable kitchen sink employees used to wash their hands.

Simpson said the inoperable sink was also apparently as a result of the backup.

An inspector would revisit the restaurant in two weeks to make sure it was repaired, Simpson said.

Simpson also said the health department received word of a similar backup at the restaurant in October.

A spokesperson for Burger King said she was unaware of any septic or sewer back-ups at the restaurant.

She called the substance that came up out of the drain at the indoor playground “sanitized cleaning water.”

Simpson said inspectors consider anything that comes up from a drain to be sewage.