More than 35,000 gallons of untreated sewage spilled into Mill Creek early Monday after a bypass pump malfunction, city officials said.<\/p>\n
The spill occurred around 2:30 a.m. on May 18 near Dewitt Street when approximately 35,751 gallons of untreated wastewater entered the creek, according to the City of Jacksonville.<\/p>\n
City crews stopped the spill around 8 a.m. after replacing a relay on the primary pump.<\/p>\n
Officials said crews deployed chlorine tablets and pelletized lime at the site and will continue water sampling at multiple locations along Mill Creek until bacteria counts return to normal.<\/p>\n
The city said drinking water was not affected and there is no danger to the public.<\/p>\n
The North Carolina Division of Water Resources was notified and is reviewing the incident.<\/p>\n
State law requires public notification when 1,000 gallons or more of untreated wastewater reaches surface waters.<\/p>\n
For more information, contact the City of Jacksonville at 910-938-5249.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than 35,000 gallons of untreated sewage spilled into Mill Creek early Monday after a bypass pump malfunction,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276059,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-276058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276058","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=276058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}