By Maryann Tobin | Jul 16, 2016 – for American News X
[dropcap]I[/dropcap]n Florida, where Republican Gov. Rick Scott has taken his state from the cleanest to one of the most polluted in just a few short years, a lawsuit has been filed against a nuclear power plant accused of poisoning the drinking water supply.
The claim also suggests that the state went out of its way to try to hide the poison pouring into the Biscayne aquifer, which supplies drinking water to more than 3 million South Florida residents in and around the Homestead area.
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Among the pollutants allegedly discharged into the federally protected waters of Biscayne Bay and surrounding canals are radioactive tritium, nitrogen, phosphorus, salt, and ammonia, according to the lawsuit filed in federal court on July 12, 2016.
The lawsuit, brought by the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy (SACE) and the Tropical Audubon Society Inc., claims that Florida regulators turned a blind eye to the toxic waste dumping of Florida Power & Light Company’s Turkey Point Power Plant.
SACE executive director Stephen Smith told the Palm Beach Post that FPL was using the canal system as an “open industrial sewer like nothing else in the world.”
