Delray Outfall Sewage Stopped
For 45 years, 14 million-gallons-a-day of partially treated sewage was discharged one mile offshore of Delray Beach, FL and onto a coral reef. The nutrient pollution caused algae blooms and killed coral. Lead by Reef Rescue, recreational scuba divers fought for 6 years to shut down the pipe. On April 1, 2009, the outfall finally went offline. A victory for Reef Rescue supporters. Learn more about Reef Rescue, visit: www.reef-rescue.org.
April 3rd, 2009 at 8:11 am
Glad to see an end put to the outflow of this pipe. Now to keep it off for good.
April 3rd, 2009 at 8:18 am
We finally did it!
April 3rd, 2009 at 10:32 am
Congrats and thanks to Reef Rescue and allies for your tireless efforts. My membership is the best $20 I ever spent.
April 3rd, 2009 at 11:39 am
Way to go! Great to see your hard work rewarded.
April 3rd, 2009 at 4:32 pm
Great job!!! Tried to stop this 40 years ago but they said I was stupid and didn’t know what I was talking about. They were elected officials and they said that they were smarter than everybody that lived in the Delray-Boynton area.
April 9th, 2009 at 5:14 am
Now what will the poor fish eat???
July 6th, 2009 at 7:35 am
Awsome
August 31st, 2009 at 8:55 pm
about time
September 28th, 2009 at 2:24 pm
not sure scuba diving around there with sewage spewing out is such a good idea….
December 21st, 2009 at 10:07 am
Nice work.
February 6th, 2010 at 4:01 pm
Tasty!
May 5th, 2010 at 10:57 pm
swimming in poop. Save the environment and in the process make yourself very ill that’s really smart.