Ultimately, it will take weeks and months for the effects of the wastewater to be fully realized, assistant director of the Tampa Bay Estuary Program Maya Burke told CNN.
But what’s actually in the wastewater already has some people concerned.
Officials have yet to describe the water’s pollution in detail, and parts of the in-depth results from water sampling done by the Florida Department of Environmental Protection remain absent from its website. However, the wastewater has previously been described broadly by officials as having elevated levels of nitrogen and phosphorus, being acidic…
