Staff ReportsFebruary 25, 2020
8min829
The city spilled more than 211.6 million gallons of raw sewage.
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Staff ReportsFebruary 25, 2020
Renzo DowneyJanuary 27, 2020
4min550
This year's bills carry tweaks to match the Governor's proposal.
Jacob OglesJanuary 7, 2020
5min621
Legislation aims at local government-owned utilities.
Jacob OglesSeptember 12, 2019
4min1339
Governor said city and county governments among worst offenders.
Janelle Irwin TaylorOctober 18, 20188min394
St. Petersburg City Council agreed to remove an onerous requirement that consultants working on the city’s sewage problems send all reports to council at the same time they share them with staff members. The vote came during a Committee of the Whole meeting Thursday ahead of City Council’s regular board meeting. Consultants complained the requirement […]
Mitch PerryNovember 1, 2017
2min259
A final report by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission made public last week recommended 89 felonies and 103 first degree misdemeanors against the city of St. Petersburg based on a series of environmental violations relating to sewage dumps from 2015-2016. That bit of information leads a new attack ad by Seamless Florida, the […]
Mitch PerryOctober 27, 2017
4min344
Pinellas/Pasco County State Attorney Bernie McCabe will not be filing criminal charges associated with the sewage dumps that occurred in St. Petersburg in 2015 and 2016, The Tampa Bay Times reports. His comments come less than a day after the Tampa Bay Business Journal reported that McCabe was looking into possible charges against individuals based on the […]
Mitch PerryOctober 26, 20175min608
St. Petersburg’s failure to notify the public on a recent sewage discharge is receiving intense criticism from a state lawmaker who helped pass legislation that requires the public be informed within 24 hours of such a release. After Hurricane Irma hit the Tampa Bay area the night of Sept. 10, the following day the city reported […]
Mitch PerrySeptember 20, 20175min393
Hurricane Irma caused massive sewage overflows in Florida, prompting an environmental group to call on local communities to improve infrastructure to prevent that from happening again when the next big storm hits. “Hurricanes are a fact of life in Florida, but sewage in our streets and bays shouldn’t be,” said Jennifer Rubiello, state director of […]
Associated PressSeptember 15, 2017
8min174
As if loss of air conditioning and refrigeration weren’t bad enough, widespread power outages in hurricane-battered Florida are teaming with structural failures to cause another headache: sewage overflows. Local governments have submitted well over 100 “notices of pollution” to the state Department of Environmental Protection since Hurricane Irma struck, some involving multiple spills and releases […]