EPA Sets Water Pollution Limits for Florida

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Source: Associated Press

The Environmental Protection Agency has set legal limits for farm and urban runoff polluting waterways in Florida, the first time the federal agency has set standards for a state.

The EPA set the limits Monday after it settled a lawsuit with environmental groups last year. The numeric limits on runoff are designed to reduce pollution from sewage treatment plants and runoff choking lakes, rivers and other Florida waters with algae blooms.

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EPA officials say critics' cost estimates are wildly exaggerated. The EPA puts the cost at $130 million to $200 million a year, not the billions claimed by opponents.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/11/15/us/AP-US-Algae-Blooms.html?hp

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1. 50 years too late but glad to see it.

Our waters generate much more than $200 million per year and they need to be saved.