I just looked at Gimleteye's posted video yesterday. Everyone: Go back and watch it!! It stinks. It is shitty. But you shouldn't miss it! This is still going on 3 miles off Virginia Key! Maybe all the brown water will float back to Fisher Island's beach...only then will something be done about it.
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Counties flush dirty water into the ocean
Miami Herald - Sunday, November 4, 2007
Author: CARL HIAASEN
"...But, at long last, the state Department of Environmental Protection is seeking to shut down the pipelines and halt the flow of urban sewage into the ocean. The DEP says the counties should recycle the wastewater instead of flushing it on the reefs (or what's left of them).
The official reaction of county leaders has been remarkably devoid of shame or remorse. They strongly oppose the DEP initiative, saying there's no conclusive evidence that a daily deluge of 500,000 gallons of crappy water seriously harms marine life.
In a pitch to Gov. Charlie Crist, Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Alvarez soberly asserted that "it is not in the public interest to spend a significant amount of money to eliminate discharges when we do not have the answer to what is really causing the impact to reefs."
If Alvarez truly believes that a steady torrent of sewage causes no damage to coral, he's staggeringly ignorant."
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The beat goes on... and on... Didn't anyone notice Carl Hiaasen's article?
By the way, in addition to the above poster's comments, the state Department of Environmental Protection is the department the state legislature is seeking to remove, destroy or gut, to the benefit of the state's developers. THIS SESSION. RIGHT NOW!!!
Listen, where I grew up on Sunny Isles Beach, there were outflow pipes coming from every motel along Collins Avenue.
I would play all day in those pipes, damning them up with sand walls and diverting the outflow into the Atlantic Ocean.
Perhaps that explains how I wound up the way I did....
Those pipes SFL might have just been the storm water....we hope.
How far offshore do the waters become "federal waters" and not "state waters" ? Why can't the Fed's shut this shit down?
Am I crazy? I thought last year's legislatures ordered the outfalls shut down by 2010???
GoD, let's hope, but I believe they did have the outflow coming out of pipes not too far off into the ocean. That tar was a bear to get off!
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