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Thanks to citizen activism, Chris’s Plumbing has withdrawn their application for a sewage effluent dump on the banks of the Little Manatee River’s wetlands. This is a big victory for all of us who worked to defend the little Manatee River from this toxic pollution! Enjoy your Thanksgiving week, with no public hearing!
UPDATE: Chris’s Plumbing has changed their application to sewage-effluent spraying (instead of sewage-solids spreading). It’s still horrible. In fact parts of the plan are even worse now.
• They doubled the volume of toxic waste to 100,000 gallons per day!
• They reduced the setback around the wetlands to a mere 30 feet.
• Their chlorine “treatment” is ineffective against many disease-causing organisms.
• Their new Special Use zoning permit would last forever, running with the land no matter who owns it.
We won! We protected the Little Manatee River and her wildlife from a developer who wanted to bulldoze hundreds of native trees just to build 8 houses on a skinny mangrove-lined spit in the middle of the river at Mill Bayou, and let the new McMans…
Developers want to kill 250 trees (half have trunks over 1 foot in diameter!) and bulldoze wildlife habitat, spoiling a breathtakingly beautiful part of the Cockroach Bay Aquatic Preserve, just to build eight houses...
New Hearing Date for Wimauma Sprawl, Part 2: The preliminary zoning hearing for the Wimauma Sprawl Project, Part 2, has been postponed to: Monday, June 14, 6:00 p.m. County Center, 2nd floor, 601 E. Kennedy Blvd. See orange parcel on map, plus mor…
There are TWO proposed developments threatening our environment & communities. YOU can help by attending the hearings: May 11, 9:00 a.m., is the critical FINAL hearing for the first half of the Wimauma Sprawl project. Please come! If we lose this …