TITUSVILLE, Fla. – The more than seven million gallons of sewage Titusville spilled into the environmentjust before Christmas last year could wind up costing the city more than a half-million dollars.
Titusville faces up to $200,000 in state fines for a pipe break five months ago at Sand Point Park that leaked the raw sewage into ponds that flow to the Indian River Lagoon, which has been under ecological duress for decades, according to News 6 partner Florida Today.
City officials are lobbying to lower the potential penalty, and the Florida Department of Environmental Protection has yet to make any formal proposed fine or order to force the city to improve how it manages its sewage. [TRENDING: Track uncertain path of rocket falling to Earth