If no more rains fall, it will take another two months' worth of discharges to lower Lake Okeechobee past the danger point, Millar said. Some customers have canceled and others are unhappy because they're catching fewer fish. Yesterday, she told me to buy some rubber gloves. It tears on you inside. To be perfectly honest, I'm surprised nobody has sued us.
Some activists say the community's economic future is imperiled.
Now people are up in arms. The community had no idea it was as bad as this. If you can't do anything about it, most of us are going to move. We don't want to live on a sewer. Scientists have not determined the cause of the fish kills, but they are finding strong parallels to the toxic Pfiesteria attacks that have troubled Maryland's Lower Eastern Shore.