{"id":13062,"date":"2021-07-08T17:12:15","date_gmt":"2021-07-08T21:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=13062"},"modified":"2021-07-08T17:12:50","modified_gmt":"2021-07-08T21:12:50","slug":"heavy-rain-causes-major-overflow-of-the-sewer-system-in-south-lakeland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2021\/07\/08\/heavy-rain-causes-major-overflow-of-the-sewer-system-in-south-lakeland\/","title":{"rendered":"Heavy rain causes major overflow of the sewer system in South Lakeland"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Heavy rain from then-Hurricane Elsa caused a manhole to overflow in South Lakeland about 5 a.m. Wednesday, the Florida Department of Environmental Protection reported.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The rain overwhelmed the sanitary sewer system, and approximately 75,000 gallons of fluid were released into a drainage ditch that flows into Poley Creek.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"525\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/poley-creek.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13063\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/poley-creek.png 525w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/poley-creek-300x203.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">City crews and contract pumping trucks were called in and stopped&nbsp;the overflow at 1:30 p.m. Samples were collected in the area, DEP reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heavy rain from then-Hurricane Elsa caused a manhole to overflow in South Lakeland about 5 a.m. Wednesday, the Florida Department of Environmental Protection reported.&nbsp; The rain overwhelmed the sanitary sewer&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13063,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[748],"class_list":["post-13062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-news","tag-sewer-system"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}