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According to Floridatoday.com, floodwaters from Tropical Storm Fay have overwhelmed lift stations in Florida’s south beaches:

“The South Beaches system serves about 22,000 accounts or an estimated 50,000 residents south of the Pineda Causeway.

It includes more than 300 miles of neighborhood pipes that rely on gravity to push sewage to about 80 pumping stations, which then pump the waste through pressure mains to a treatment plant in Melbourne Beach.

Water leakage into the pipes, exacerbated by flooded streets and yards, has at least doubled the normal volume of water pumped to the treatment plant to a rate of more than 12 million gallons a day. . .

But the pumps can’t do their work fast enough to keep some sewage from escaping through manholes or backing up into homes in low-lying areas of the barrier island.”

According to sources in the article, the area is in the process of updating aging infrastructure, but Fay has overwhelmed even the improvements made to the system.  

Read the full article here.

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