On Monday, the two agencies were alerted to what was described as raw sewage percolating out of the ground at the park.

Robert Pierce, Department of Health Oneonta District director, said Tuesday that they investigated the complaint to see if it was valid.

``We did not see a public health hazard yesterday,’’ he said.

The complaint indicated there was raw sewage getting into the river, he said, but it was not near the river and it was not raw sewage. It was effluent that had been through a septic tank and leach field. There was a wet spot and a little bit of flow, he said.

Pierce said the area was fenced and not accessible to campers at the park. He speculated that the park was putting too much water through its septic system. The Dreams Park, he said, is currently using 67,000 gallons of water a day and most, if not all of it, goes through the treatment system.

He said that in addition to his office, representatives from Lamont Engineering, the Dreams Park management and the DEC were all on site during the investigation.

Department of Environmental Conservation spokesman Rick Georgeson said he could not comment on Monday’s investigation because it is part of an ongoing enforcement case.

Georgeson did say the agency has been to the site previously and that the Dreams Park is also currently under investigation for possible past violations in regard to its septic system. He declined to characterize the potential violations while they are still under investigation.

The tip which triggered Monday’s investigation came from Erik Miller, executive director of the Otsego County Conservation Association.

``Any time OCCA is notified of a point source contamination, it is our policy to forward those concerns to the appropriate agency, in this case DEC. For a number of years, both OCCA and local residents have had concerns about water usage and proper disposal of sewage in the Route 28 corridor, especially in the more developed areas of the corridor,’’ Miller said.

According to Miller, the information about the Dreams Park came from Carl Good, of Cooperstown, a member of the environmental organization.

Good said he had heard from two people that Dreams Park’s septic system was leaking in an area visible from the railroad tracks that cross the park.

Good said he could not disclose who called him, except to say that one person is a Dreams Park employee.

Last year, the OCCA commissioned a preliminary study of the water quality upstream and downstream of the Dreams Park. The study indicated an increase in the level of fecal coliform bacteria downstream of the park. The study did not determine the source of the bacteria which may be accounted for by leachate from the Dreams Park or from agricultural fields in the area. The study recommends additional sampling needs to be done to objectively determine the source.

Matt Albright, assistant to the director of the State University College at Oneonta Biological Field Station, said that BFS personnel were sampling river water below Dreams Park on Monday and would analyze the samples this week.

Dreams Park spokesperson Mike Walter said Tuesday morning that they had no comment and are waiting for the reports from the Departments of Health and Environmental Conservation.

``The concerns related to the potential contamination of the Susquehanna River are many.áThe Susquehanna is a valuable natural resource that we should treat as our front yards not our dumping grounds,’’ Miller said.