FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Terry Gibson, American Water Security Project Phone: (772) 285-7683 Email: tgibson@awsproject.org Fl Senate Appropriations Committee Approves Landmark Water Bill AWSP applauds strong policy/record funding for policies to clean waterways [St Petersburg, Florida, February 21, 2020] — Senator Debbie Mayfield (R-Indialantic) introduced a last-minute set of amendments that improved the comprehensive “Clean [...]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Terry Gibson, American Water Security Project Phone: (772) 285-7683 Email: tgibson@awsproject.org Statement on Fort Lauderdale’s Sewage System Failures City has spilled 126.9 million gallons of sewage in the past three weeks [St Petersburg, Florida, 9 January 2020] — Six major sewer main failures in three weeks have [...]
American Water Security Project's science director Dr. Peter Barile and legislative director Terry Gibson appeared on Emerger Strategies award-winning The Sustainable Angler Podcast in December. Give it a listen. In this episode of The Sustainable Angler Podcast, I interview Dr. Peter Barile and Terry Gibson from the American Water Security Project. As you probably already [...]
Authored by the American Water Security Project’s science director Dr. Peter Barile, ‘Fix Florida's sewage and harmful algae bloom problems’ originally appeared in the Sun Sentinel November 8, 2019. Dr. Peter Barile, AWSP Science Director The third-largest coral reef on the planet, the Florida Reef Tract, spanning from the Dry Tortugas to Stuart, has succumbed [...]
Authored by the American Water Security Project’s steering committee member Robert Young, ‘Put wastewater improvements first in climate resiliency planning' originally appeared in the Tampa Bay Times October 29, 2019. American Water Security Project Steering Committee Member, Rob Young Around the state, Florida’s aging, inadequate wastewater collection and treatment systems are failing, and will [...]
Mats of harmful macro algae rot along Castaway Point, Palm Bay. The algae, which smothered the seagrass meadows throughout the Indian River Lagoon, grows exponentially, especially when fed with raw or partially treated sewage. Sewage on the Move Heavy rains mobilize wastewater to the Indian River Lagoon In August 2019, Florida’s rainy season [...]
Authored by the American Water Security Project’s Board Chair Kirk Mantay, ‘Wastewater: Our everywhere crisis' originally appeared in Hatch Magazine August 20, 2019. AWSP Board Chair, Kirk Mantay. Many of us would call our journey through avocations such as hunting or fishing a quest for purity. In my case, it’s a search for something more certain [...]
Know Your Sewage Treatment? Centralized municipal wastewater (sewer) treatment versus Onsite Sewage Disposal Systems (OSDS, septic tanks) After we flush our toilets, most of us don’t want to think too much about how the wastewater from our homes is treated. The 100 gallons of human wastewater we each produce every day is generally not important [...]
Coastal Ecosystems Subject to Lag Time In Florida there is a current sense of relief – 2019’s Harmful Algal Blooms may not be as bad as 2014, 2017, or 2018. And the state just approved a record setting expenditure on habitat restoration and water pollution reduction. So when will the local waterways heal themselves? Before [...]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 8, 2019 Contact: Dr. Brandon D. Shuler Phone: (832) 603-378 bdshuler@awsproject.org American Water Security Project Introduces Science & Infrastructure Advisory Panel Members Saint Petersburg, FL – The American Water Security Project, a coalition of industry leaders, policy experts, and scientists working to promote the urgent need for wastewater infrastructure upgrades to [...]
