Last night at the Lincolnville Neigbhorhood Association (LNA) meeting, City Chief Operating Officer JOHN REGAN admitted that sewage dumping had taken place at the CITY OF ST. AUGUSTINE Sewage Treatment Plant at the South End of Riberia Street.
REGAN said that the City is working with Florida Department of Environmental Protection to remedy the "leaking pipe," which causes a visible pollution visible on City and County GIS maps, as well as causing odiferous stenches and unfishable stretches where residents say they've avoided fishing for years.
The finding was in response to NATIONAL RESPONSE CENTER REPORT No. 873187 re: Possible Plume from Sewage Plant, Illegal Dumping, Reported to National Response Center by Clean Up City of St. Augustine on June 5, 2008.
The City of Venice Florida pled guilty to federal environmental crimes involving sewage pollution with semi-treated sewage emitted in quantities exceeding their permits.
The CITY OF. ST. AUGUSTINE and CITY MANAGER WILLIAM B. HARRISS must be held accountable for their environmental crimes.
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