{"id":355701,"date":"2026-06-11T03:39:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T03:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/355701\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T03:39:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T03:39:09","slug":"body-found-at-san-jose-sewage-treatment-plant-cause-of-death-unknown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/355701\/","title":{"rendered":"Body found at San Jose sewage treatment plant, cause of death unknown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities are investigating after a body was found at the San Jose-Santa Clara Regional Wastewater Facility in north San Jose on Wednesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Police responded at about 12:50 p.m. to the 700 block of Los Esteros Road, after a report of a body found at the local government-run sewage treatment facility operated by the cities of San Jose and Santa Clara.<\/p>\n<p>San Jose police investigators are working with the Santa Clara County Office of the Medical Examiner to determine the circumstances surrounding the death, including the cause.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt this time, we are still in the infancy of this investigation and do not have very many details,\u201d the police department said in a statement.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Police did not release any further details and an investigation is ongoing. The identity of the person has not been released.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The San Jose-Santa Clara Regional Wastewater Facility is a massive sewage treatment plant that handles wastewater for cities across Silicon Valley. The 2,600-acre plant is in the Alviso neighborhood of San Jose and surrounded by salt ponds and marshland.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The discovery comes just days after a body was found on June 2 at a Waste Management facility on Davis Street in San Leandro, near the Oyster Bay Regional Shoreline, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/news\/body-found-san-leandro-waste-management-facility\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">multiple media reports.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The man&#8217;s name and cause of death were not released and an autopsy was pending. The San Leandro police case is ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Authorities are investigating after a body was found at the San Jose-Santa Clara Regional Wastewater Facility in north&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355702,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[184,88,90,89,200],"class_list":["post-355701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-bay-area","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-south-bay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}