{"id":89370,"date":"2025-12-19T14:57:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T14:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/89370\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T14:57:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T14:57:08","slug":"untreated-sewage-released-into-jacksonvilles-scales-creek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/89370\/","title":{"rendered":"Untreated sewage released into Jacksonville&#8217;s Scales Creek"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1110\" height=\"509\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-15-093620.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-102679\"  \/>Untreated wastewater from a broken sewer pipe on Lejeune Boulevard in Jacksonville was released into Scales Creek on Dec. 13. Photo: Google Earth<\/p>\n<p>More than 100,000 gallons of untreated wastewater is estimated to have been released over this past weekend into a major tributary in Jacksonville.<\/p>\n<p>City crews worked throughout Saturday evening after being notified of and finding a broken stormwater pipe and sewer line near Lejeune Boulevard, which is also Highway 24, near Scales Creek, according to a release.<\/p>\n<p>An estimated 129,000 gallons of untreated wastewater is believed to have been discharged into the creek, which flows directly into the New River.<\/p>\n<p>Crews \u201cwill continue work over next several days to fix the issue,\u201d the release states.<\/p>\n<p>Motorists on Lejeune Boulevard are being asked to slow down and use caution in the area where crews are working.<\/p>\n<p>The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality\u2019s Division of Water Resources was notified Saturday about the discharge \u201cand is reviewing the matter,\u201d according to the release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Untreated wastewater from a broken sewer pipe on Lejeune Boulevard in Jacksonville was released into Scales Creek on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89371,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[48297,116,118,117,4199],"class_list":{"0":"post-89370","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-deq","9":"tag-jacksonville","10":"tag-jacksonville-headlines","11":"tag-jacksonville-news","12":"tag-water-quality"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89370","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=89370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}