Frustration cooking in Escambia County Viertel after another sewage lick

Escambia County, Florida frustration reaches a turning point for the residents in a neighborhood in front of the picturesque motorway in Pensacola after another wastewater geck came into the bay.

According to the Escambia County Utility Authority, repairs were carried out on a leak near Cypress Point West on Friday within a few hours of repairs.

Neighbors say that the wastewater has spilled more than half a dozen times into the nearby stream over the years.

“All of this waste water ends up in the bay, we are simply not very good administrators of our water here,” said homeowner George Sigler.

The Skinner Mill Creek is flooded with waste water at least for the third time in six months.

Sigler says that an Ecua inspector gave the neighbors the answer on Friday, which he suspected.

“The answer was” It is really bad, “he said. “If you said that, I assume that we have a bacteria or a virus in this stream.”

In the official report of the Florida Department of Environmental Protection, a broken 12-inch force is the 12-inch force responsible for the leak, which was buried over 45,000 gallons.

The report says that the repair was completed in less than three hours. At least 6,000 gallons were recovered.

While smells after the leak can only disturb the neighbors nearby, the fear of how this affects the entire area is.

Sigler says he sees fewer and fewer fishing boats in front of his dock and listen to anglers because of the conditions.

“Escambia Bay used to be a refuge for Flounder as a bottom feed, but most people don't want to eat the flounder now because the waste water and heavy metals, viruses and bacteria will finally calm down on the floor,” he said. “I wouldn't eat it here.”

Wear News has interviewed Sigler and his neighbors several times in the past six months.

Last year Sigler said that he had proposed to buy Ecua a hurled goal from which he claimed that he would easily repair the continuous leaks and would prevent more waste water from flowing in the bay.

“I worked together in the Everglades and we used everywhere in the Everglades Sluice goals to control water or floods,” he said. “You work great, it's nothing new.”

“You can see that you have built large large holding ponds, but you don't hold anything because it only runs to the stream. It's stupidity!” he added.

To this day, Sigler says that he has not received an answer to his proposed solution and felt strongly felt that Ecua will have a much bigger problem if infrastructure overhaul is not carried out.

“There is a solution! This is the tragedy for this whole thing that you just don't grasp,” said Sigler. “Nobody has ever made a comment. You listen and shake your head. Nothing is ever done.”

Sigler says he and some neighbors have considered taking legal action against Ecua, as they say that their correspondence has all become unanswered.