After years of algae and water-quality problems, Florida’s Legislature has a water-quality bill with broad support.
The bill by Sen. Debbie Mayfield of Indialantic received unanimous approval in late January from the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, Environment and General Government. The Florida Chamber of Commerce and Audubon Florida were on board with it too, reports the Florida USA Today Network capital bureau.
“It blows me away, really, to see that kind of support,” says Sen. Ben Albritton, a Republican citrus grower.
The bill would move oversight of onsite systems from the Department of Health to the Department of Environmental Protection
