It took a few phone calls from local reporters to get the city of Tampa, Florida, to clean up 20,000 gallons of raw sewage emptied into the street earlier this month.The city had hired Seminole Septic to restore some sewer lines, but a truck driver made the mistake of dumping four truckloads of waste into the wrong manhole. There were a pair of manholes in the area — one marked “sanitary sewer” that travels to a wastewater treatment plant, and another feeding into a ditch that flows into Tampa Bay.The smell, according to some on Westshore Boulevard, was unbearable. “The
Pumper Confuses Manholes, Dumps 20,000 Gallons of Sewage in Street
A case of misidentified manholes led to four truckloads of waste being dumped on a Tampa, Florida, street
May 15, 2017 | by Anthony Drew |














