Originally published by The News-Press on June 17, 2021 by Chad Gillis
A chunk of land in Glades County that was purchased for $37 million in 2007 is being used for water quality treatment testing and will eventually be the site of a nitrogen-removal facility.
But some environmental and advocacy groups want to see more done with the property as there seems to be a perception locally that the land is not really being utilized.
“We never really got to implement an operational version of the mitigation strategy,” said Calusa Waterkeeper John Cassani. “There was always the test cells and research and doing small scale models, but it never got to an operational phase. Some 14 years later we’re still talking about the certainty of the project.”
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