Saturday, April 15, 2006

20,000 Cubic Yards of Illegal Dumping Is....

enough stuff to fill in six Olympic size swimming pools to a depth of six feet. Or enough stuff to cover a football field to a depth of some 11.2 feet. Or enough, potentially, to kill all of the fish and wildlife in a coquina pit pond where local people have fished and swam for generations.
Do our putative City "leaders" expect us to think that this was merely a "mistake?"
Make no mistake about it -- there are no environmentalists on the St. Augustine City Commission.
There is no City manager with the word "environmental" in his title.
They may not hate nature, but what they did to the Old City Reservoir is considered criminal by state and federal regulators. I never used the word "criminal" in reporting "just the facts" to the National Response Center on February 17 (Report No. 788280).
Does being the government of the City of St. Augustine mean never having to say you're sorry?

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