{"id":166545,"date":"2026-02-24T03:47:24","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T03:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/166545\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T03:47:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T03:47:24","slug":"three-agencies-dive-volunteers-cleaning-hillsborough-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/166545\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Agencies, Dive Volunteers Cleaning Hillsborough River"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dozens of people from three agencies, as well as some volunteer divers, are helping to keep the Hillsborough River junk free with a cleanup Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Crews will be working from 8 am to noon, in, around, and on the water, identifying and removing items that have been improperly or accidentally dumped into the river.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The health of the Hillsborough River is a treasure, and its health is central to the health of Tampa,&#8221; Mayor Jane Castor said. &#8220;It&#8217;s crushing to see the things that have been dumped in there, but it&#8217;s refreshing to see this group effort to make things right.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dumping any waste, debris, or pollutants into rivers, canals, storm drains, or coastal waters is illegal under the Florida Litter Law. Violators are subject to fines.<\/p>\n<p>Previous river cleanups have yielded scooters, skateboards, tires, construction waste, automobile tires, and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dozens of people from three agencies, as well as some volunteer divers, are helping to keep the Hillsborough&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166546,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-166545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}