September 20, 2019 2:00 p.m. 
The Roseburg Urban Sanitary Authority has lifted the warning of potential hazards of coming into contact with the water on the North Umpqua River.
Friday afternoon, RUSA General Manager Jim Baird said the agency has completed water quality testing on the river, downstream from Wednesday’s accidental sewage spill. Baird said test results show that the river has returned to pre-spill condition.
Wednesday RUSA said a contractor working under contract with Douglas County on the Highway 99 project encountered a failure of a fitting on the sanitary sewer pump line at the Winchester pump station, adjacent to the river. An estimated just over 222,000 gallons of sewage was released into the river over a two and a half-hour period that morning before it could be stopped.