Heads should roll. You all must read this column in today’s Palm Beach Post: WPB water supply got boost from treated sewage water.
It said:
“The City of West Palm Beach came so close to exhausting its water supply in May that it made an unprecedented decision to pump millions of gallons of treated sewage water onto well fields that supply 150,000 customers.
With a critical need for drinking water, utility managers skipped percolating the effluent through a filtering marsh for two years. The so-called reuse water was put directly onto the city's well field after being blended with millions of gallons from old quarry pits at Palm Beach Aggregates in western Palm Beach County - water not intended for direct human consumption.” and:
“... But the public wasn't informed about the change in treatment of recycled sewer water.”
Why didn't they warn the people so pregnant women or anyone else could have made a choice to buy bottled water?
(Hit on graphic from Palm Beach Post to make it larger)
4 comments:
Welcome to govenment services. I think everyone is too stunned to comment.
Everybody thinks that bottled water is going to save them. What about the poor, what about showers for children, what about that corner stone of Modern Western Civilization - safe drinking water? What are we slipping to the savage ages here in SoFL?
This really came as a surprise to me!
I often travel up to palm beach to visit their water treatment areas.
I know it sounds odd, but they have two quite nice areas, Green Cay and Wakodahatchee Wetlands that are areas with boardwalks and lots of birds and also filter water at the same time.
Although I worry that one day this will be the only kind of place to observe birds (after every piece of land is covered in concrete), I thought PBC was light years ahead of Dade county.
Bummer.
I am puzzled, I keep checking the palm beach post for letters to see the reaction of people there: Nothing so far.
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