There’s too much waste in the St. Johns River. Local environmental advocates want it cleaned up

Local environmental advocates said that the St. Johns River has too much waste and they want it cleaned up.

Lisa Rinaman of the St. Johns Riverkeepers said this has been an issue for a long time.

“Unfortunately, we have chronic sewage issues or poop in the St. Johns River and it’s coming from multiple sources,” Rinaman said.

The massive 310-mile river gets tons of sewage sludge dumped at the mouth of the St. Johns River, near the Osceola, Brevard and Indian counties. It travels to North Florida counties.

“It’s making our sewage issues throughout the watershed even worse, Rinaman said. ”Right now, South Florida is transferring around on average 69,000 tons of sewage sludge, also called biosolids, sometimes up to 79 tons annually."

In addition to tons of sludge every year, Rinaman said