{"id":204669,"date":"2026-03-24T23:52:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T23:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/204669\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T23:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T23:52:08","slug":"martin-county-celebrates-25-years-of-keeping-waterways-clean-with-free-boat-sewage-pump-out-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/204669\/","title":{"rendered":"Martin County celebrates 25 years of keeping waterways clean with free boat sewage pump-out services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">Martin County is celebrating 25 years of keeping local waterways clean with a vessel specifically designed to pump sewage out of boats.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The vessel, named &#8220;MS POOP&#8221; (Martin Ship: Pump Out Operation Program), is operated by the county utilities department. Funded by state and federal grants, it offers free sewage pump-out services for boats docked or passing through the county.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">WATCH WPTV&#8217;S COVERAGE BELOW:<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Over its 25 years of operation, the program has kept an estimated 2 million gallons of sewage out of the water. Operator Steven Markley told me the crew recently set a record of 74 pump-outs in a single day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">&#8220;If it weren\u2019t for our boats coming through on a weekly basis to provide this service, I think their sewage would end up in the water. Could be considered a dirty job but it\u2019s an important job,&#8221; Markley said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The service runs Monday through Friday. Boaters can contact the program at 772-260-8326.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">This story was reported on-air by a journalist and has been converted to this platform with the assistance of AI. Our editorial team verifies all reporting on all platforms for fairness and accuracy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Martin County is celebrating 25 years of keeping local waterways clean with a vessel specifically designed to pump&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204670,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172],"class_list":["post-204669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204669","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=204669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}