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Old 22nd-February-2008, 01:57 PM
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Default Hey Miami Herald, Reef Rescue gets the credit.

I like the part about deep well injection and sending pollution to the Gulfstream.
We should make our pollution in Florida 'Global pollution' for all to enjoy.
DEEP-WELL INJECTION
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Garcia said the state should study potential effects of closing the outfalls. Broward, for example, might have to expand its use of deep-well injection, which pumps treated sewage underground -- an approach that some environmentalists oppose as a threat to drinking-water supplies.

Garcia cited an ongoing federal study that found that only 4 percent of the sewage from the ocean pipes is carried back over shallower reefs near shore. The sewage, he said, is almost instantly diluted and carried north in Gulf Stream currents. The outfalls empty from one to three miles offshore in 90 to 100 feet of water.

But environmental groups and some scientists have produced research showing higher concentrations of ammonia, nitrogen and other pollutants than the state has estimated.

They also point to direct impacts on corals from algae blooms that have decimated some Palm Beach reefs as well as increased diseases and other maladies. Many beachgoers also have blamed the pipes for periodic closures from high levels of waste bacteria, although no study has confirmed that link.
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100% of any victory in Legislation should go to Reef Rescue of the Palm Beaches.
I just added them to our Foundations List, They are the true champions regarding Sewage.
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