The state of Florida has hit the city of Fort Lauderdale with a $2.1 million penalty, the largest in its history, after scores of sewage spills that wreaked havoc on house-lined streets and rivers and canals.
Residents were forced to step in while city workers played an exhausting game of whack-a-mole trying to keep up with the leaks in a series of sewage crises that state officials Friday called “unprecedented.”
In February, the Florida Department of Environmental Protection . - the largest fine at the time.
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