The Coast Guard promptly called me after I reported the 60,750 gallon City of St. Augustine raw sewage spill to the National Response Center. The duty official said he was referring the matter to the Environmental Protection Agency.
The City of St. Augustine notified state Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP) but did not notify federal officials, choosing lesser scrutiny under Governor RICHARD LYNN SCOTT.
REGAN says he does not know whether:
(a) City pumping station electronic alert device malfunctioned; or
(b) City employees did not respond promptly to alarms.
Why?
Our City of St. Augustine City Manager JOHN PATRICK REGAN, P.E. on September 8, 2008 publicly denounced citizens for reporting City of St. Augustine to the National Response Center, a 15-agency federal consortium that investigates pollution, spills and accidents. Our City has a sweetheart relationship with FDEP, as evidenced by failure to prosecute City managers for dumping a landfill in a lake and for years emitting semi-treated sewage effluent through a leaky "pipe," secretly consented to by Commissioners who never met to discuss it, thereby violating Florida Sunshine law. (see photo of REGAN below with "pipe," which resembles a colander more than a pipe).
No new Florida DEP ("Don't Expect Protection") coverup is desired or required. That's why I filed National Response Center Report No. 1110655.
See below.
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!
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