Incident caused by grease blockage in pipeline, city staff reports
Starting about 11:30 a.m. on Thursday, May 7, approximately 23,040 gallons of raw sewage began spilling from a stormwater pipe into a ditch at the intersection of Myrtle Street and Cocoanut Avenue, the City of Sarasota has reported to the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP).
The site is west of Booker High School , which is located on North Orange Avenue, an aerial map shows.
City staff was alerted to “a foul‑smelling liquid flowing from a stormwater pipe” into the ditch, the report noted…