See excerpt below, from the Florida League of Cities website, insight into what may have gone wrong:
1. Continuous monitoring "from an office in City Hall?" No one is there on Saturdays. It should be located at the water plant, staffed 24/7.
2. Stormwater flowing directly into the lake? Could be heavy metals from there and/or lake sediments from long-ago pollution.
As the excerpt suggests, City goobers like Sam Lansdale practically break their armsd patting themselves on the back. They need to learn environmental law and stop polluting our Nation's Oldest City!
Maria Sanchez Lake Weir Project
City of St. Augustine
The replacement of the Maria Sanchez Lake flood gate valves with a new automated weir gate system was completed in spring 2006. The weir gates, lake temperature and dissolved oxygen content as well as the water levels of the lake and adjoining marsh, now can be continuously monitored from an office in City Hall. Since the weir gate completion in 2006, the summer fish kills have been averted. Also, the lake water level was automatically lowered during heavy rainfalls in September 2007 to allow additional runoff from the streets.
Contact: Sam Lansdale
Assistant Director of Public Works
City of St. Augustine
P.O. Box 210
75 King Street
St. Augustine, FL 32085
Phone: (904) 825-1040
E-mail: slansdale@ci.staugustine.fl.us
http://www.flcities.com/membership/innovations_water.asp
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