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As sewage spills grow to be more and more frequent throughout Florida, a brand new web site, multi-fin.com, permits customers to entry spill knowledge for their county and evaluate it to different Florida counties. The Tallahassee Sewage Advocacy Group launched the web site in Might.

The web site makes use of Florida Division of Environmental Safety knowledge on spills all through Florida from 2000 to 2020. Customers can enter their county to calculate gallons spilled per capita. The generated report additionally lists the date and quantity of every recorded spill.

In line with the web site, Leon County had 23 spills in 2019, totaling round 237,000 gallons and 0.81 gallons per capita.

Close by Wakulla County had 5 spills in 2019, totaling 17,000 gallons and 0.52 gallons per capita.

Jefferson County had one 1,000-gallon spill, calculated at 0.07 gallons per capita.

In recent times, Leon County has seen many giant sewage spills, prompting considerations over issues with the Metropolis’s sewage assortment system, notably the system’s outdated vitreous clay piping. Most giant spills have occurred throughout storms and heavy rainfall.

In 2016, throughout Hurricane Hermine, energy outages induced over 1.6 million gallons of sewage to spill in Tallahassee, in keeping with a earlier Tallahassee Reports article.

In 2018, a 25,000-gallon spill close to Tallahassee Neighborhood School was capable of be contained in a car parking zone. In line with stories, the spill was attributable to heavy rain.

In 2019, 10,000 gallons of wastewater spilled close to Tom Brown Park. Solely 2,400 gallons have been recovered, in keeping with stories.

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