Environmental Incident Reporting

JEA makes it a practice to keep the public informed of incidents that occur that may have impacted the environment. JEA will repair pipes or equipment, and clean up the area accordingly and report the event to the proper agencies. This page will contain all events that are reported to federal, state, or local agencies, as well as sanitary sewer overflow events that do not meet reportable pollution release requirements.  

Section 403.077, Florida Statutes, regarding public notification of pollution incidents, requires an operator of an installation at which a reportable pollution release occurred to provide a report to Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP) within 24 hours after its discovery. FDEP will make available on its website all notices received.

Sanitary Sewer Overflows (SSO) for This Month 

A Sanitary Sewer Overflow occurs when sewage (or wastewater) overflows from the sewer collection system. This means that sewage has come out of a broken pipe, manhole or pump station, rather than staying within the collection pipes and being sent to the wastewater treatment plants. 

About Sanitary Sewer Overflows

SSO Events reported to the Florida Division of Emergency Management State Watch Office (SWO)

All releases that impact waters of the State, exceed 1,000 gallons in volume, or may cause a potential threat to public health or the environment will be called in to SWO within 24 hours.

• 2618 Dellwood Ave
  Jacksonville, FL 32204
  Duval County
  Tuesday, August 11, 2020 @ 8:00 PM
  Estimated release amount: 50 gallons
  Action Taken: Due to heavy rain unable to clean up
  Preliminary Cause: Cave-in
  

• 2415 D Street
  Jacksonville, FL 32208
  Duval County
  Tuesday, August 11, 2020 @ 6:45 PM
  Estimated release amount: 1000 gallons
  Action Taken: Due to heavy rain unable to clean up
  Preliminary Cause: Other

  
  

• 777 Ashford Street
  Jacksonville, FL 32208
  Duval County
  Wednesday, August 5, 2020 @ 10:30 AM
  Estimated gallons spilled:  100
  Action Taken:  Cleaned bloackage out of man hole, retreived 6000 gal of sewer/rain water from storm drain. Washed down road and applied hydrated llime to affected area.
  Preliminary Cause:  Grease
  
  

SSO Events Reported to Local Agencies (Florida Department of Environmental Protection - Northeast District, COJ-Environmental Quality Division)

All releases between 50-999 gallons are reported to local agencies. 

• 5022 Gate Parkway 8/5/2020 8:08 a.m. - 600 gallons
• 3831 St. Johns Ave 8/7/2020 10:15 a.m. - 600 gallons
  
• 103rd and Firestone Rd 8/11/2020 9:48 a.m. - 500 gallons
  

Minor SSO Events

JEA reviews all SSO events to determine cause and apply corrective action.  Minor events are those of less than 50 gallons that do not cause a potential threat to public health or the environment. Minor events do not require external reporting however, they will also be listed to provide transparency of all releases.

• 4909 Rhode Island Ct 8/7/2020 2:24 p.m. - 15 gallons
• Knoll Dr N and Pinnacle Dr 8/7/2020 8:05 p.m. - 15 gallons
  

Other Events Reported To The State Watch Office

• None
  
  

Events in Calendar Year 2019

Archived Environmental Pollution Incidents (PDF)