Good afternoon, everyone:
1. Thank you for sending me the documents. This penalty seems woefully inadequate – will you please refer it to EPA CID? This is the third major pollution violation by the City of St. Augustine in recent years (previous events involved 40,000 cubic yards of solid waste in our Old City Reservoir and years of semi-treated sewage polluting our saltwater marsh). Compare, United States of America v. City of Venice, Florida – five felony indictment counts for lesser pollution with treated sewage.
2. I look forward to our Democratic Florida CFO Alex Sink being elected Governor, so that pollution laws will again be enforced without fear or favor. I look forward to there being a St. Augustine National Historical Park, Seashore and Scenic Coastal Parkway, the pollution of which will become a federal crime, with no ability for FDEP to coverup for the City of St. Augustine’s environmental racism.
3. Is FDEP is guilty of desuetude, hampered by insouciant corporativist, polluter-coddling leadership, a 31-year old penalty matrix, a lack of imagination and failure of nerve, and a refusal to prosecute recidivist polluters? My late friend David Thundershield Queen said DEP meant, “Don’t Expect Protection.” Reckon he was right?
Sincerely,
Ed Slavin
Clean Up City of St. Augustine, Florida
www.cleanupcityoftaugustine.blogspot.com
Box 3084
St. Augustine, Florida 32084
904-829-3877 (o)
904-427-9918 (fax-h)
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