{"id":844499,"date":"2026-09-11T20:24:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T20:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/844499\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T20:24:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T20:24:10","slug":"roots-blamed-for-sewage-overflow-on-madisons-east-side-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/844499\/","title":{"rendered":"Roots blamed for sewage overflow on Madison&#8217;s east side | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MADISON (WKOW) \u2014 City officials say roots blocked a sanitary sewer main, causing an overflow that sent 500 gallons of sewage onto the street and into the storm sewer on the city&#8217;s east side.<\/p>\n<p>Engineering Division spokesperson\u00a0Hannah Mohelnitzky said someone reported the overflow just before 8 a.m. Thursday on the 600 block of Acewood Boulevard, which is a few blocks north of Cottage Grove Road.<\/p>\n<p>Mohelnitzky said wastewater was seen coming out of a manhole.<\/p>\n<p>City of Madison Engineering crews arrived at 8:20 a.m., cleared the obstruction and stopped the overflow by 8:35 a.m.\u00a0Mohelnitzky said crews had the street surface, storm sewer and sanitary sewer cleaned\u00a0by 9:25 a.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MADISON (WKOW) \u2014 City officials say roots blocked a sanitary sewer main, causing an overflow that sent 500&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":844500,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[192,3,79,452],"class_list":["post-844499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-news","tag-science","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=844499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/844500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=844499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=844499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=844499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}