{"id":276607,"date":"2026-05-19T13:58:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T13:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/276607\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T13:58:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T13:58:10","slug":"nearly-36000-gallons-of-raw-sewage-spills-in-jacksonville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/276607\/","title":{"rendered":"Nearly 36,000 gallons of raw sewage spills in Jacksonville"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"890\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Jville-spill.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: City of Jacksonville\" class=\"wp-image-106308\"  \/>Photo: City of Jacksonville<\/p>\n<p>City officials in Jacksonville announced on Monday that an early morning sewage spill reached a tributary that leads to the nearby New River.<\/p>\n<p>According to the announcement, which is required by state law, 35,751 gallons of untreated sewage spilled into Mill Creek near the area of Dewitt Street in Jacksonville. Officials attributed the spill to a bypass pump that malfunctioned.<\/p>\n<p>City crews stopped the discharge at 8 a.m. Monday by swapping in a new relay on the primary pump.<\/p>\n<p>Crews have deployed chlorine tablets and pelletized lime at the site, according to the mandated announcement. Sampling in multiple locations along the creek will continue until bacterial counts clear up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt no time was city drinking water compromised and there is no danger to the public,\u201d officials stated.<\/p>\n<p>State requires\u00a0that owners or operators of wastewater collection or treatment works issue a press release when an\u00a0untreated\u00a0wastewater discharge of\u00a01,000 gallons or more\u00a0reaches surface\u00a0waters. The city\u2019s announcement was in accordance with that regulation and issued to the media covering Onslow County.<\/p>\n<p>The state Division of Water Resources was notified of the spill and is reviewing the matter, according to the press release. If you\u2019d like more information, call city hall at 910-938-5249.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo: City of Jacksonville City officials in Jacksonville announced on Monday that an early morning sewage spill reached&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276608,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117,65652,12343,21865,4199],"class_list":["post-276607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-new-river","tag-onslow-county","tag-pollution","tag-water-quality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276607","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=276607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}