BATON ROUGE, La. — A Baton Rouge resident made a disturbing discovery Thursday afternoon -- a rivulet of blood leaking into the street behind a funeral home.
WBRZ in Baton Rouge reported that photos taken behind Greenoaks Funeral Home showed blood leaking from a valve in the ground and flowing onto the street. In the approximately 20 minutes that the leak lasted, a large stretch of the roadway was coated.
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Adam Smith, an employee with the city’s Department of Environmental Services, confirmed that the fluid was blood mixed with formaldehyde. The mixture was leaking from a storage tank behind the funeral home.
"We sent out both our sewer inspector and our environmental specialists to take a look," Smith told the news station. "We determined that it wasn't a sewer issue and that it was an issue on private property."
Smith said the funeral home is under new management and did not have a permit. The city was working to get the permit issue resolved.