Delray Outfall Sewage Stopped

For 45 years, 14 million-gallons-a-day of partially treated sewage was discharged one mile offshore of Delray Beach, FL and onto a coral reef. The nutrient pollution caused algae blooms and killed coral. Lead by Reef Rescue, recreational scuba divers fought for 6 years to shut down the pipe. On April 1, 2009, the outfall finally went offline. A victory for Reef Rescue supporters. Learn more about Reef Rescue, visit: http:// www.reef-rescue.org.

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• sewage
• ocean
• environment
• coral
• reef
• fish
• Delray
• Beach
• Boynton
• Reef
• Rescue
• ecology

[gvhammond]

Great job!!! Tried to stop this 40 years ago but they said I was stupid and didn't know what I was talking about. They were elected officials and they said that they were smarter than everybody that lived in the Delray-Boynton area.

[AceLockCo]

We finally did it!

[Dexxxter7780]

arent those divers going to get sick swiming with all that poopy?

Also, when is stopped, why is there still a light stream coming out?

[Dexxxter7780]

So where are they putting that 14 million gallons a day now?

Did we trade a forest for a reaf? Or in your case a marshland...

[7968332]

the fish seem to like it... or they are trying to work together to stop it

[bert26a]

swimming in poop. Save the environment and in the process make yourself very ill that's really smart.

[chao129]

Tasty!

[longboardlife]

Nice work.

[europana7]

not sure scuba diving around there with sewage spewing out is such a good idea....

[swiminon]

about time

[tomasleeman]

Awsome

[leorolim]

Now what will the poor fish eat???