The Homosassa River in Homosassa, F...

The Homosassa River in Homosassa, Fla., is domicile to thousands of fish, manatees and other marine and bird life. in the way that when it was in peril of harsh contamination by a leaking subterraneous pipe, action had to be taken immediately. The ecology of the river was intact until the day this past April when a six-inch force main that lay 26 feet beneath the river began to leak. Potentially thousands of gallons for day of raw sewage could have begun seeping into this pristine river with drastic effects

The pipeline was imprison down, and a trucking company was hired at a charge of $5,000 per day to transport the untreated waste-water 12 miles around the head-waters waters of the spring to a lift station forward the opposite side of the river. Then RHV Utilities, which manages the lift stations forward both sides of the river, called onward its consulting engineers, ...