Props to Surfrider Foundation for putting up this awesome video of the stopping of the Delray sewage outfall. Gross, huh? Good news: the Delray outfall went offline on April 1, no longer spewing 14 million gallons per day. Miami-Dade's sewage outfall, somewhere off Virginia Key, is still going at it, though, and I'm guessing it looks just like this. But that's only part of our waste stream. Most of it is dumped into an ocean of sludge somewhere underneath Mt. Trashmore at the edge of Biscayne National Park. People wonder why environmentalists are so alarmed at rock mining tens of millions of cubic yards from wetlands to provide fill for FPL's nuclear power ambition at Turkey Point. Isn't it time to stop abusing our national parks, and, threatening our water supply? Is it too much to ask to leave at least something of nature that works the way it did, before we devised 'protection'.
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The music is good but the rest is shit...literally! I have never seen so much shitty water.
We treat our water without respect.
One of the worst things to happen in Dade County was sewers. Before sewers. lots had to be big enough to accommodate a septic tank. The water went back to the ground, not in the ocean. Dade's soil makes a wonderful filter. Sewers allowed the building of dense developments and loss of water. Multi-family dwellings and institutions can have their own package units to clean the water. In the rush to build for sardines, we polluted the ocean and depleted our water supply. I am amazed that building continues with no sewer capacity as the county claims.
I guess that we do need a baseball stadium. The tourists will need something to do when our beaches are too polluted to swim in. What a wise choice for those tourist tax dollars!
Reminds me of what we get out of the Miami Herald.
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