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ST. LUCIE WEST • TRADITION
YourVoiceWeekly.com VOL. 4/ISSUE 4
YOUR INDEPENDENT LOCAL COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2015
Political Who’s Who attend groundbreaking
Staff photo by Michelle Gentile State Senator Joe Negron and Congressman Patrick Murphy celebrated the groundbreaking of the Army Corps of Engineers’ C-44 Reservoir and Stormwater Treatment Area. Negron, a Republican, is the presumptive President Elect of the State Senate. Murphy, a Democrat, is giving up his seat to run for the U.S. Senate.
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TREASURE COAST — Republicans, Democrats and independents are united in ending discharges of dirty water into the St. Lucie River and, ultimately, the Indian River La-
Staff photo by Michelle Gentile Port St. Lucie Mayor Greg Oravec, left, and Martin County Commissioner John Haddox were among numerous dignitaries at the recent groundbreaking of the Army Corps of Engineers’ C-44 Reservoir and Stormwater Treatment Area in Indiantown.
goon. On Friday, Nov. 20, Mayor Greg Oravec joined Democratic Congressman Patrick Murphy and Republican State Senator Joe Negron at the groundbreaking of the Army Corps of Engineers’ C-44 Reservoir and Stormwater Treatment Area in Indiantown. Oravec said that although the new reservoir is about 25 miles from Port St. Lucie, it’s benefiting the city in many ways.
“The St. Lucie River and Indian River Lagoon are a big part of what makes our City, County and Treasure Coast special,” he said in an emailed response to queries. “They are at the heart of our lifestyle, the very reason why many of us call the Treasure Coast ‘home’; a cornerstone of our regional economy,
See C-44 RES. page A23
Tradition residents oppose compost site Bruno Moore
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TRADITION — A group of Tradition residents is advocating against a proposed compost site that they say would threaten local farms, pollute ground water and
lower property values in the area. Compost USA has applied for a conditional use permit to operate a site that opponents say would contain bio-solids including human and medical waste mixed with yard refuse. The application, however, lists the proposed site as an agriculture fertilizer mixing fa-
cility. In a letter dated November 21, engineer Mark Murray, one of the Tradition residents opposing the site, suggested to county planning official Leslie Olson that the application should be corrected. “The permit requested must be for a bio-solids waste treatment
facility and not agriculture fertilizer mixing. This is a matter of law and the law is correct. I ask that you send this to the BOCC (Board of County Commissioners) and the County Attorney for their immediate
See COMPOST page A12
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