[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 105 (Friday, June 22, 2018)]
[House]
[Page H5510]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    HOW MUCH POLLUTION IS TOO MUCH?

  (Mr. MAST asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MAST. Mr. Speaker, today is day 22 of water exactly like this 
being discharged into my community in Lake Okeechobee. You can see 
exactly how disgusting it is.
  What you cannot see is the disgusting smell that emanates from it. 
You cannot see the toxins that are inside of it. You cannot see the 
airborne pathogens that come off of it.
  What you see behind me is a satellite image of the hundreds of square 
miles of algae bloom that are in this lake that are being discharged 
miles and miles away into my community.
  My community did not put the algae bloom on the lake; they did not 
put the nutrients into the lake that caused this algae bloom; but my 
community pays the price, all under the umbrella of flood control for 
other communities.
  I believe my community is owed, at a minimum, one answer: How much 
pollution is too much? How much danger to our community is too much? 
How much before this will stop?

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