{"id":3856,"date":"2026-08-26T08:57:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T00:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/?p=3856"},"modified":"2026-08-26T08:57:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T00:57:19","slug":"heavy-rain-triggers-sewage-overflow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/2026\/08\/26\/heavy-rain-triggers-sewage-overflow\/","title":{"rendered":"Heavy Rain Triggers Sewage Overflow"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A pollution incident occurred at Manasquan Beach in Monmouth County, New Jersey. Following heavy rainfall, waves washed a large amount of household trash onto the beach, including at least 60 medical syringes and related waste, with plastic debris scattered across the tidal flats. During the summer rainy season on the U.S. East Coast, sewage overflows occur frequently. In addition to beach litter pollution, the increased presence of pathogenic bacteria in seawater can easily lead to skin and gastrointestinal diseases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A pollution incident occurred at Manasquan Beach in Monmouth County, New Jersey. Following heavy rainfall, waves washed a large amount of household trash onto the beach, including at least 60 medical syringes and related waste, with plastic debris scattered across the tidal flats. During the summer rainy season on the U.S. East Coast, sewage overflows [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3857,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-marine-protection"],"views":15,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3856"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3858,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3856\/revisions\/3858"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}