/ About 130 sites across the state now use treated sludge as fertilizer.
As damaging algae blooms continue to afflict Florida, the state is taking steps to crack down on and track pollution from biosolids, the waste from sewage plants loaded with nutrients that can fuel blooms.
But the new rules, conservationists warn, continue to ignore a loophole for about 40% of the state’s waste.
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At a final hearing last week, state environmental regulators said the new rules address two classes of sludge largely used in agriculture. Class AA, a third class, gets more highly treated to remove pathogens and heavy metals and is classified as a fertilizer not covered by the rules.
SEAGROVE BEACH Residents of the Walton County Road 30A community of Seagrove Beach are mourning the loss earlier this week of some of the massive live oak trees that helped give the community its name.
Now marked only by the stumps that had intertwined to create them, the ancient trees fell victim to a contractor who overstepped the bounds of a county-issued construction permit. They were here my whole life, said Coy Bowman, who has lived in Seagrove Beach since she was 7 years old, as she surveyed the trees stumps on Wednesday. It s kind of like losing a family member, she added. They re gone now, and what are you supposed to do?
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