By Joel Malkin
Apr 28, 2021
The Florida Department of Health in Palm Beach County issued a Health Alert over the harmful toxic algae bloom that s plaguing Lake Okeechobee.
Health officials took a water sample on Monday from the area surrounding the Pahokee Marina and found it contains highly toxic bacteria.
A Florida congressman took a tour of the area on Wednesday. The smell. The taste. I probably spit ten times as I walked over there.
U.S. Representative Brian Mast calls the algae bloom at the Pahokee Marina poison and is pushing to make discharges of such toxins against federal law. He says words like poison and toxic are not hyperbole. The algae actually meets levels determined by the Department of Environmental Protection.
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Show Transcript ANGELA ROZIER SPEAK TO ENVIRONMENTALISTS WHO ARE CONCERNED EPUSH VERY WITH THE RAINY SEE AHEAD. The Reporter: LAYERS OF THICK BLUE GREEN ALGAE CAN BE SEEN AROUND THE MARINA. ONE MAN TOLD US WHAT WE RE LOOKING AT RIGHT NOW IS IT NOTHING COMPARED TO WHAT IT WAS LIKE EARLIER. THIS IS WORSE THAN THIS. > ENVIRONMENTALISTS ARE CONCERNED. BY THE LOOK OF IT TODAY, PAHOKIE, IT LOOKS JUST LIKE THE BLOOMS WE HAD TWO YEARS AGO IN THE ST. LUCIE. VERY, VERY FAR ALONG IN DEVELOPMENT. THE REPORTER: THE LAKE WORTH WATER KEEPERS THE PAHOKIE MARINA IS BEING A BIT OF A CANARY IN A COAL MINE. > HE WAS HERE FRIDAY AND TOOK THE AERIAL FOOTAGE TO ALERT THE COMMUNITY. THE BLOOM, THE DISCHA