{"id":69719,"date":"2025-12-03T15:41:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T15:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/69719\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T15:41:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T15:41:07","slug":"south-florida-city-warns-against-water-related-activities-after-sewer-overflows-into-waterway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/69719\/","title":{"rendered":"South Florida city warns against water-related activities after sewer overflows into waterway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you had plans to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/tag\/swimming\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">swim<\/a>, fish or engage in other water-related activities in some parts of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/baltimore\/tag\/middle-river\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Middle River<\/a> in Fort Lauderdale, you may want to think twice after a sewer overflow on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The City of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/tag\/fort-lauderdale\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Fort Lauderdale<\/a> said that, effective immediately, a precautionary advisory to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/tag\/swimming-advisory\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">avoid water-related recreational activities<\/a> in the Middle River is in effect after the overflow that occurred at 1930 E. Sunrise Boulevard.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Swimming, fishing, jet-skiing, paddle-boarding, kayaking, canoeing, or engaging in any other water-related activities should be avoided within that advisory area,&#8221; Fort Lauderdale city officials said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>That advisory area includes:<\/p>\n<p>North: E. Sunrise BoulevardSouth: NE 8th CourtEast: Middle River DriveWest: NE 20th Avenue<\/p>\n<p>City officials said that water sampling in areas that were impacted by the sewer overflow will take place every day.<\/p>\n<p>The precautionary advisory that is currently in effect will be lifted once satisfactory test results are obtained, according to officials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you had plans to swim, fish or engage in other water-related activities in some parts of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69720,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[506,28,30,29,249,40444,1553,40445],"class_list":["post-69719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-broward-county","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-middle-river","tag-swimming","tag-swimming-advisory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69719","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=69719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}