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!
Tuesday, May 09, 2006
Environmental Pollution in Paradise
Here in this beautiful City, 440 years old, dumping of 20,000 cubic yards of contaminants in the Old City Reservoir is called a "mistake." City Manager for Life WILLIAM B. HARRIS made the same mistake 20,000 times. Our City Commissioners are very tolerant of his "mistakes," recently awarding him a "heck-of-a-job" award in the midst of a FDEP criminal investigation. Our City was founded in 1565, the same year Ivan the Terrible founded the forerunner of the KGB. Secrecy abounds in our City government. Secretive government pollution of our environment here -- as in Oak Ridge, Tennessee and other nuclear weapons plant sites -- would have made Ivan proud, but it would have made our Founding Fathers angry and sick at heart. Enough secrecy. Enough pollution. Enouigh unaccountability.
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