{"id":51027,"date":"2024-10-15T18:14:07","date_gmt":"2024-10-15T22:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=51027"},"modified":"2024-10-15T18:14:16","modified_gmt":"2024-10-15T22:14:16","slug":"the-enormous-surge-of-water-sent-over-5-million-gallons-of-untreated-sewage-into-at-least-five-lakes-in-lakeland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2024\/10\/15\/the-enormous-surge-of-water-sent-over-5-million-gallons-of-untreated-sewage-into-at-least-five-lakes-in-lakeland\/","title":{"rendered":"The enormous surge of water sent Over 5 Million Gallons of untreated sewage into at least five Lakes in Lakeland"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So far,&nbsp;the City of Lakeland has reported&nbsp;at least eight spills affecting Lake Somerset, Lake Parker, Lake Hollingsworth, Lake Bonny, Lake Bentley, and the Lake Hunter Outfall Ditch.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The two largest spills, totaling over 5 million gallons, happened at the\u00a0Glendale Wastewater Reclamation Facility\u00a0in Lakeland.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img data-dominant-color=\"6c7a86\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" style=\"--dominant-color: #6c7a86;\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"693\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" src=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/dark-water-1186763-1279x865-1-1024x693.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-51028 not-transparent\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/dark-water-1186763-1279x865-1-1024x693.webp 1024w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/dark-water-1186763-1279x865-1-300x203.webp 300w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/dark-water-1186763-1279x865-1-768x520.webp 768w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/dark-water-1186763-1279x865-1.webp 1279w\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A bacteria outbreak could happen, FDEP is testing the lakes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The city made six other preliminary reports to the FDEP:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Lake Parker\u00a0\u2014 Rising lake levels flooded portions of a gravity sewer at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/prodenv.dep.state.fl.us\/DepPNP\/reports\/viewMapDirectLink?point=yes&amp;incidentDetailKey=26354\">West Lake Parker Drive and Bella Vista Street<\/a>, overwhelming the collection system.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Lake Hollingsworth\u00a0\u2014 A manhole near\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/prodenv.dep.state.fl.us\/DepPNP\/reports\/viewMapDirectLink?point=yes&amp;incidentDetailKey=26259\">Fairmount Avenue and Lake Hollingsworth Drive<\/a>\u00a0overflowed and discharged wastewater into a storm drain that leads to Lake Hollingsworth.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Lake Bonny\u00a0\u2014 A pump station at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/prodenv.dep.state.fl.us\/DepPNP\/reports\/viewMapDirectLink?point=yes&amp;incidentDetailKey=26260\">1106 Bartow Road<\/a>\u00a0near the Bonny Apartments appeared to be discharging wastewater into Lake Bonny on Thursday morning.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Lake Bentley\u00a0\u2014 A manhole near\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/prodenv.dep.state.fl.us\/DepPNP\/reports\/viewMapDirectLink?point=yes&amp;incidentDetailKey=26263\">John Arthur Way and Lake Bentley Court<\/a>\u00a0overflowed and discharged wastewater into a storm drain that leads to Lake Bentley.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Lake Hunter Outfall Ditch\u00a0\u2014 The city reported two incidents near Lake Hunter. A pump station at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/prodenv.dep.state.fl.us\/DepPNP\/reports\/viewMapDirectLink?point=yes&amp;incidentDetailKey=26265\">1501 Ariana St.<\/a>\u00a0near the Georgetown Mobile Home Park lost power and discharged wastewater into the ditch until city crews hooked up a generator. Waste bubbled up through a manhole near\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/prodenv.dep.state.fl.us\/DepPNP\/reports\/viewMapDirectLink?point=yes&amp;incidentDetailKey=26268\">Unitah Avenue and Lake Hunter Drive<\/a>, spilling an unknown amount of waste into the ditch.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So far,&nbsp;the City of Lakeland has reported&nbsp;at least eight spills affecting Lake Somerset, Lake Parker, Lake Hollingsworth, Lake Bonny, Lake Bentley, and the Lake Hunter Outfall Ditch.&nbsp; The two largest&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51028,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2,"attached_media":[{"id":51028,"url":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/dark-water-1186763-1279x865-1.webp","type":"image\/webp"}]},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[10085],"class_list":["post-51027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-news","tag-the-enormous-surge-of-water-sent-over-5-million-gallons-of-untreated-sewage-into-at-least-five-lakes-in-lakeland"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51027","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=51027"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51029,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51027\/revisions\/51029"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}