It’s the textbook definition of a “boondoggle.”
Ten Mile Creek reservoir and stormwater treatment area in St. Lucie County has been sitting dormant for nine years, at a cost to taxpayers of more than $30 million.
Equally egregious is the fact tens of billions of gallons of polluted water flowing from Ten Mile Creek could have been treated over the past nine years if the project had been operational.
Enough! It’s time to bring this facility online — for the benefit of our waterways.
U.S. Reps. Patrick Murphy, D-Jupiter, and Tom Rooney, R-Okeechobee, have introduced a bill in Congress that would transfer oversight of the Ten Mile Creek project from the Army Corps of Engineers to the South Florida Water Management District. Florida Sens. Marco Rubio and Bill Nelson have filed a companion bill in the Senate.
Putting the Ten Mile Creek project in the hands of the water management district is no panacea. But it is a step in the right direction.