Latest sewage spill in #Florida city turns street into "lazy river of toilet paper and poop."

[riversedge]

And the folks keep electing Repugs!!




Latest sewage spill in #Florida city turns street into "lazy river of toilet paper and poop." https://sun-sentinel.com/local/broward/fort-lauderdale/fl-ne-sewage-spill-fort-lauderdale-20210322-s4shorm4wbcd5kceatdpl7gada-story.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Morning%20Update&utm_content=1581616466816#nws=true via @bybbaitinger

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Florida’s bursting pipes and expanding highways tell a tale of infrastructure priorities gone wrong



https://environmentamerica.org/blogs/environment-america-blog/ame/florida%E2%80%99s-bursting-pipes-and-expanding-highways-tell-tale

Florida’s epidemic of leaky pipes is what you get when you combine aging sewage infrastructure with increased flooding caused by global warming.
9/22/2020
| Gideon Weissman Policy Analyst, Frontier Group

A recent Guardian article reported that, in the last five years, 1.6 billion gallons of sewage spilled in Florida, in nearly 14,000 separate incidents. These sewage spills are every bit as gross and as dangerous as you’d imagine, threatening human health, wrecking ecosystems, and causing toxic algal blooms. Sewage spills also contribute to water quality problems at Florida’s famous beaches, 100 of which had advisories for unsafe bacteria levels in 2019.[1]

Florida’s epidemic of leaky pipes is what you get when you combine aging sewage infrastructure with increased flooding caused by global warming. The Miami Herald recently wrote that Fort Lauderdale’s recent spills, the worst in Florida’s history, were “thanks to a crumbling system of pipes and pumps that have been mismanaged for decades and are unprepared for the increasing effects of sea level rise.” And in June, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis vetoed millions of dollars in sewage infrastructure spending from the state budget.

At every level of government, funding has fallen far short of what’s needed to keep sewage where it belongs. But it’s not as if Florida has simply decided to forego infrastructure spending altogether. There’s one area where the state seems to have more than enough money: Pavement. In January, the Wall Street Journal reported that Florida, along with many other states, was “pumping more money into transportation projects,” new roads in particular, and that Florida was planning to spend $10 billion in fiscal year 2019 alone.

A lot of that road money is going to wrongheaded projects that at best are a poor investment of public dollars, and at worst could do lasting damage. In our last Highway Boondoggles report, we wrote about an $800 million highway project in Miami that would lead to more driving and more pollution. Florida is also moving forward with an insane statewide highway project that could cost upwards of $20 billion, while literally threatening the Florida panther with extinction.........................................................................................

[underpants]

1. Probably caused by a caravan from Mexico

I’m joking about the pictures of litter and trash (we are told) left by the people traveling en masse.

[mitch96]

2. Naw, we don't need no stinking infrastructure update... We need to give rich people and

corporations more MONEY!!!!!! right?
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[Tommy Carcetti]

3. Fort Lauderdale's been plagued with these issues for a while now.

One thing that immediately came to my mind after the Right threw a fit when the Keystone XL project got cancelled was that there are more than enough public infrastructure issues like this in Fort Lauderdale to go around nationwide.

So all the crocodile tears that the people who would otherwise be working on Keystone XL are now out of work seems to be total bullshit. There's plenty of work to be done.

[superpatriotman]

4. I live ten blocks from this spill

We’ve had closer ones. The ft Lauderdale sewage system is shit. Literally.

[hatrack]

5. But Muh Taxes!

Rejoice in the sweet smell of Freedumb, I guess.

[Celerity]

6. a lazy river of shit

sums up Trumpian 'Murica

[Elwood P Dowd]

7. And don't forget this mass dump of poop that's polluting Florida...

[SheltieLover]

8. K&R!

[Kid Berwyn]

9. Smells like DeSantis, too. NT