Atlanta, GA : Fleeing car crashes into water treatment plant on Howell Mill road in Midtown Friday morning on September 26, 2014

A car crashed into an Atlanta water treatment facility on Howell Mill road in Midtown Friday morning, causing authorities to block traffic in both directions as they pulled the car out of the water. Officers reopened Howell Mill Road at about 7:45 a.m. For four hours, it had been closed between 17th Street and Huff Road. The Infiniti with a Florida tag drove through a fence and into a mixing basin at a little before 4 a.m. Three men fled the scene on foot, police said. Officers caught up with the driver, DeNorris Hoard, arresting him. Officers were still trying to track down the other two men. According to Glennis Curry of the City of Atlanta Watershed Management, the facility's reservoirs are not impacted. The mixing basin in which the car crashed contains untreated water from the Chattahoochee River. Workers shut off the valve from that basin after the crash, but kept the others operating as normal. The water in the affected basin was drained so that workers could inspect it for damage. "One of the walls will need some repair, but the car did remarkably little damage to the water plant," said Frank Stephens, deputy commissioner of Atlanta Watershed Management. The water at the plan is being thoroughly tested, he said, adding that Atlanta's water supply will not be affected by the incident. Source : Car crashes into Atlanta water treatment basin