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Financial Fall-out from the 7.3 M Gallon San Diego Spill
Back in April a sewage spill in Carlsbad, CA set a new record for the largest sewage spill in state history at 7.3 million gallons of sewage into Buena Vista Lagoon. That was the crime, here's the punishment. The San Diego Regional Water Control Board is fining the cities of Carlsbad and Vista $1.1 million for the spill. Frankly, to me it seems like the two cities got off kinda easy considering the size of the disaster:
- 17,000 fish killed
- Area beach closures for more than a week
- several species of wildlife harmed a killed
- the entire lagoon had to be drained
Sadly, it looks like you can in fact put on price on the quality of our environment and in Carlsbad its only worth a mil point one.
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