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."