In secret, behind locked gates, our Nation's Oldest City dumped a landfill in a lake (Old City Reservoir), while emitting sewage in our rivers and salt marsh. Organized citizens exposed and defeated pollution, racism and cronyism. We elected a new Mayor. We're transforming our City -- advanced citizenship. Ask questions. Make disclosures. Demand answers. Be involved. Expect democracy. Report and expose corruption. Smile! Help enact a St. Augustine National Park and Seashore. We shall overcome!
Thursday, December 10, 2009
FOLIO WEEKLY: "BY THE GROSS"
"BY THE GROSS
A $1 fine for every 203.76 gallons of sewage.
-- St. Augustine activist and blogger Ed Slavin, calculating the levied by the state Department of Environmental protection against the city of St. Augustine for a May 2009 sewer-line break that spilled 611,294 gallons of raw sewage into San Sebastian River. DEP fined St. Augustine $33,000, but forgave $30,000 of it in light of a proposed mitigation project."
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