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Residents press commission to stop operating fountains during sewage events; commission schedules policy discussion
Summary
Residents urged the commission to push City Council and public works to turn off decorative fountains when sewage enters ponds. Commissioners agreed to discuss fountain functionality and use of bubblers at the next meeting and asked staff to develop a policy option.
A series of public commenters told the Titusville Environmental Commission that decorative fountains in city ponds spray polluted water during sewage events and should be shut off until the water is clean.
Resident Stan Johnston, who identified himself as a professional engineer, said the city’s de facto practice of leaving fountains running in contaminated ponds repeatedly exposes people — including “women, children, babies” — to sewage aerosols and called for a written City policy…
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