wastewater

Environmental groups and the state have reached a settlement over management of a former phosphate plant site that leaked millions of gallons of wastewater in 2021.

In the 1900s, swamps and low-lying areas were drained to create more space for development and farming.

During a pair of stops on Friday, Gov. Ron DeSantis announced the state is distributing more than $24 million to North Florida communities for local infrastructure and workforce projects.

The county had originally planned to use a piece of ground considered environmentally sensitive, with numerous sinkholes within its boundaries.

Bud Howard, the Loxahatchee River Environmental Control District's director of information services, says scientists anticipated a signifiant amount of traces of the virus in the sewage system — and in the community.

Florida will spend $75 million on spring restoration projects for the 2021 - 2022 fiscal year. Officials are now reviewing project proposals from across the state. One of them is based in Leon County. It will upgrade a wastewater treatment facility so that it can take on more sewage.

The state expects to put more than $115 million toward closing the site of a former phosphate plant where a reservoir leak set off a wastewater crisis in Manatee County.

While most of the news about state waters has been focused on red tide, those near the Indian River Lagoon have also been dealing with brown tide, which…

The Florid Department of Health is warning residents in North Florida’s Live Oak area to stay clear of the Suwannee and Withlacoochee Rivers. A 9-million…