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DEP official urges focus on septic-to-sewer conversion after multi-day sewage spills
Summary
A Florida DEP official who worked on the multi-day 2024 sewage spill told the council that Lake Clark’s chronic water-quality problems predate the spills and recommended prioritizing septic-to-sewer conversion before any lake-bed dredging.
Jason Andreatta, Assistant Deputy Secretary with the Florida Department of Environmental Protection, briefed the council on Sept. 3 about a sequence of wastewater spills in 2024 and their likely environmental effects. Andreatta reviewed the February 2024 350,000-gallon spill and the larger six-day incident later in the year in which roughly 6.1 million gallons of raw sewage were released after a 36-inch force main was struck.…
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