Governor Beverly Perdue will visit Roanoke Rapids City Hall Friday at 10:30 a.m.

While it is clear she will talk about damage from Saturday’s flooding, city officials said this afternoon they weren’t sure whether she would bring a disaster announcement with her.

City Manager Joseph Scherer said this afternoon the city has not heard from the state on whether it has received the declaration.

Meanwhile, the Roanoke Rapids Sanitary District reported expected wastewater spills from the storm.

The notice said the district had an undetermined volume of wastewater overflow from the wastewater collection system due to extreme weather conditions when the storm dumped nearly 12 inches of rain in the area.

Spills began at 5 a.m. Saturday throughout the district and continued through mid-day Sunday.

Untreated wastewater diluted by heavy rains spilled into the waters of the state tributary to the Roanoke River in the Roanoke River Basin when inflow into the sewer system from rainwater runoff exceeded the carrying capacity of the pipes.

An estimated 1,095,000 gallons of untreated wastewater overflowed from the Wastewater Treatment Plant located on Aqueduct Road in Weldon.

Discharge flow at the treatment plant was 3.5 millions gallons a day immediately preceding the event and increased to over 20 million gallons for approximately 12 hours during the event.

Preparation is being made for all known repairs necessary to reduce the source of inflow to return the pipe system to service and minimize further discharge.

The North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources, Division of Water Quality was notified of the event on Saturday and is reviewing the matter.