Seven was on your side in Montgomery County (web|news) Wednesday, helping alert a utility to a major sewage leak in Rock Creek Park.

"It's awful. I mean it's Rock Creek for crying out loud -- it's crazy," said B.J. Freeman, a Kensington resident.

ABC 7/ NewsChannel 8 reporter Brad Bell called the Washington Suburban Sanitation Commission to report the apparent leak.

"First of all, I want to say thanks to Channel 7 for spotting what appears to be a sewage overflow into Rock Creek, because if someone doesn't tell us, we have no way of knowing," said John White, WSSC spokesman.

The utility dispatched a crew to repair the leak on Wednesday. It cleared an eight-inch sewer pipe, allowing the sewage to flow normally again. It remains unclear how long the raw sewage had been leaking into Rock Creek.

From the looks of the area around the manhole where it was all gurgling up, it has been at least several days at a rate of many hundreds of gallons per hour, probably because somebody put grease or fat down the drain, reported ABC 7's Brad Bell.

"Just because you put it in the garbage disposal, does not get rid of the fat," said White. "It goes down, it leaves your house, and it hardens in our sewer lines."

Crews are posting signs warning people of the polluted creek.

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