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Possible new stormwater fee stuns rural Seminole residents. Many rural Seminole County residents are stunned and angry that they might have to pay hundreds of dollars a year for stormwater programs if the county approves a new assessment next month. Orlando Sentinel, Florida. 26 August 2009. [Registration Required]
State lets central Florida's sludge foul Everglades, critics say. The foul waters of Lake Okeechobee, the failing health of the Everglades, and even sick dolphins along the South Florida coast might seem like troubles so distant they could hardly be the Orlando area's responsibility. Orlando Sentinel, Florida. 29 June 2009. [Registration Required]
State hopes sunshine bass recapture Lake Apopka's glory days. Decades of abuse and neglect, and a massive reduction of the Lake Apopka's size for muck farming, turned it into a 31,000-acre pool of algae, fed by phosphorous and pesticide runoff from farms that later led to fish and bird kills. Orlando Sentinel, Florida. 6 February 2009. [Registration Required]
Steps finally taken to curb pollution in Wekiva. Environmental regulators have set dramatic new pollution-reduction rules for the algae-plagued Wekiva River that could mean changes ranging from when people are permitted to fertilize their lawns to how they dispose of pet waste. Orlando Sentinel, Florida. 10 August 2008. [Registration Required]
Beware the blobs at Orlando-area springs. Many of Florida's springs have been invaded by algae in recent years, an infestation that could prove nearly impossible to get rid of. Orlando Sentinel, Florida. 5 July 2008. [Registration Required]
Saving Clermont Chain of Lakes - and the dogs, too. Three local governments could join forces to divert one of nearly 200 pipes dumping tons of polluted stormwater into the Clermont Chain of Lakes. Orlando Sentinel, Florida. 24 May 2008. [Registration Required]
Old bomb-range could stall high-tech corridor plans. Innovation Way, a proposed high-tech job and housing corridor in southeast Orange County, could face higher costs and delays because it is so close to a former World War II-era bomb range where more old rocket and bomb parts were dug up during the weekend. Orlando Sentinel, Florida. 5 February 2008. [Registration Required]
Building starts on system to cut algae. A $7.3M facility on the CC Ranch site will use liquid alum to cleanse water in the Harris Chain of Lakes. Orlando Sentinel, Florida. 18 October 2007. [Registration Required]
Scientists ponder dangers of beach-sand bacteria. 'Shocking' levels of micro-organisms such as E. coli taint our shores, studies show. Orlando Sentinel, Florida. 13 September 2007. [Registration Required]
Algae invade lakes in Clermont. Massive blooms of potentially toxic algae are quickly invading one of Central Florida's most picturesque waterways - the Clermont Chain of Lakes - as environmental officials rally a counter-attack. Orlando Sentinel, Florida. 18 July 2007. [Registration Required]
Fight for healthier lakes is growing. The Water Authority has invited county leaders to team up on a stormwater cleanup along the Clermont Chain of Lakes, a historically healthy waterway recently hit with large blooms of potentially toxic algae. Orlando Sentinel, Florida. 7 May 2007. [Registration Required]
Algae a threat to health of Clermont lakes. Large blooms are increasingly common along the chain, considered one of the cleanest in Florida. Orlando Sentinel, Florida. 26 April 2007. [Registration Required]
Water board to vote on cleanup. One of the biggest environmental projects in Lake County's history aims to protect the Harris Chain of Lakes from one of its worst polluters -- Lake Apopka. Orlando Sentinel, Florida. 26 March 2007. [Registration Required]
A current of cleanup. Fertilizer-laden water and raw sewage continues to contaminate Lake Apopka, keeping swimmers and tourists at bay. Orlando Sentinel, Florida. 18 September 2006. [Registration Required]
Algae threaten Wekiva. It's now a scientific conclusion: The Wekiva River, one of the most cherished, watched-over and protected waters in Florida, is sick from pollution. Orlando Sentinel, Florida. 7 August 2006. [Registration Required]
Builders will be ordered to avert pollution at sites. Developers in parts of Central and South Florida soon will be required to do more to protect lakes and rivers from the polluted storm water that runs off their projects. Orlando Sentinel, Florida. 28 April 2006. [Registration Required]
Congress threatens to cut funding for Everglades cleanup. Growing concern in Congress that Florida is failing to sufficiently clean up water pollution has jeopardized federal funding for a massive Everglades restoration project. Orlando Sentinel, Florida. 18 March 2006. [Registration Required]
Test takes aim at toxic waste. A project calls for a byproduct of phosphate strip mining to be spread at a Seminole County dump. It hopes to show that the radioactive substance speeds garbage decay. Orlando Sentinel, Florida. 15 January 2006. [Registration Required]
The danger zone. Along the 1,600-mile arc of the Gulf of Mexico, refineries, chemical plants and other industries stand like bowling pins waiting for the next hurricane to strike. Orlando Sentinel, Florida. 21 December 2005. [related stories] [Registration Required]
Project seeks to protect Wekiva River. In an effort to protect the Wekiva River in Florida and improve drinking water, Lake and Seminole county officials are proposing an ambitious plan to replace water wells and septic tanks at hundreds of homes along the river. Orlando Sentinel, Florida. 19 December 2005. [Registration Required]
Septic-tank plans raise a stink. Nearly 1,000 area residents, many bristling with anger, have failed to persuade environmental authorities to back away from ordering costly upgrades to tens of thousands of septic tanks blamed for fouling the Wekiva River. Orlando Sentinel, Florida. 7 August 2005. [Registration Required]
Phosphate company will pay $270,000. A phosphate company with plants in Polk County has agreed to pay a $270,000 fine after a spill of polluted water last year. Orlando Sentinel, Florida. 7 July 2005. [Registration Required]
Pouring salt on Gulf of Mexico's wounds. The Bush's plan for cleaning up the Gulf is a string of vague goals that hold little promise for real progress. Orlando Sentinel, Florida. 29 June 2005. [Registration Required]
Everglades cleanup right on target. Recent media coverage about the Everglades continues to fuel myths and misinformation surrounding Florida's commitment to restoring the famed River of Grass. Orlando Sentinel, Florida. Opinion, 14 June 2005. [Registration Required]
Bacteria to attack gunk in filthy lake. A filthy lake in a struggling neighborhood south of downtown Orlando will soon undergo an unproven restoration therapy that will use a $15,000 dose of bacteria designed to gobble up pollution. Orlando Sentinel, Florida. 16 November 2004. [Registration Required]
'Devil's drug'. Methamphetamine madness has struck Northwest Florida, taxing government resources, burning homes, blowing up hotel rooms and endangering children. Orlando Sentinel, Florida. 24 June 2004. [related story] [Registration Required]
Plant City toxins led to illness, suits say. Children once played in piles of "pretty white sand" in the old phosphate mines here -- until their miner fathers inspected the tunnels. "It's radiation from the mines," the kids were told. "Stay away." Orlando Sentinel, Florida. 4 April 2004. [related stories] [Registration Required]
Everglades backers: No slack on cleanup Disappointed with setbacks in the state Legislature last year, a group of environmentalists said Friday that one of its top priorities is to restore a 2006 deadline to clean up pollution that enters the Everglades from sugar plantations. Orlando Sentinel, Florida. 24 January 2004. [Registration Required]
Lake Apopka cleanup begins; qualms persist A large cleanup of Lake Apopka has quietly started just months after state water officials walked away from a nearly identical project at nearby Lake Griffin. Phosphorus is a tricky situation in both Lake Apopka and the Harris Chain, feeding algae that cloud the water and destroy aquatic plants essential to healthy water and fish habitat. Orlando Sentinel, Florida. 4 January 2004. [Registration Required]
Gator-death mystery still baffles The mysterious gator die-off on Lake County's Lake Griffin has slowed to a crawl this year, but experts are still baffled by the reptile deaths. Orlando Sentinel, Florida. 1 September 2003. [Registration Required]
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