20,000 cubic yards of contaminants were unlawfully dumped in the Old City Reservoir of the Nation's Oldest City, here in St. Augustine, Florida. EPA and Florida investigators are investigating environmental crimes. Our City officials violated specific written orders from the St. Johns River Water Management District.
Florida's Department of Environmental Protection has issued orders -- our City has requested extensions. Some 77 questions on the illegal dumping that I have asked our City officials since February 24th have gone unanswered.
20,000 cubic yards of illegal dumping by City of St. Augustine City officials is symbolic of a crisis of spirit and lack of trust by our leaders in the people's right to know here in our Nation's Oldest (European-settled) City, founded in 1565.
This beautiful City has 10,000 years of history and is blessed with artists, scholars, actors, musicians, actors, entertainers, historians, tourists, restaurants, hard workers, retirees and progressive activists.
We need full disclosure and we're going to get it. Over 440 years after its founding, does St. Augustine deserve a government as warm and decent as her people and climate?
What do you think?
Will you help us clean up our Nation's Oldest City?
Ed Slavin
Box 3084
St. Augustine, Florida 32085-3084
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