Category: Water
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Billions at stake as Port Everglades dredging project puts fragile reef system at risk
By Kailey Aiken
FloridaBulldog.org
Coral reefs across the east coast of Florida, once teeming with sea life and bursts of color, have become a shadow of what they once were, deteriorated into barren, monochrome plains. The causes are many, scientists say. -
With tens of millions of dollars at stake, a Broward jury assigns blame for 2019 Fort Lauderdale water leak
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
A jury Monday held a Wellington company liable for potentially millions of dollars in damages suffered by thousands of Broward businesses forced to shut down two years ago after workers cracked open a Fort Lauderdale water main. -
Pinecrest to use COVID relief millions to connect hundreds of properties to Miami-Dade water system
By Francisco Alvarado
FloridaBulldog.org
Village of Pinecrest officials are ramming through an $11.4-million proposal that would connect roughly 700 properties that currently use water wells to the Miami-Dade water system. To pay for most of the project, the village council recently authorized using $7.5 million in COVID-19 relief funds from the federal government. Affected homeowners would pay the balance… -
America’s drinking water is surprisingly easy to poison
By Peter Elkind and Jack Gillum
ProPublica
On Feb. 16, less than two weeks after a mysterious attacker made headlines around the world by hacking a water treatment plant in Oldsmar, Florida, and nearly generating a mass poisoning, the city’s mayor declared victory.
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