Bruce Paster News Today

The appearance of machinery inside an industrial building in west Lake Mary suggests Frankenstein’s birthplace, or maybe a vintage supercomputer or even a hazardous waste incinerator – which is kind of what it is. It’s not intuitive that the basic function of the machinery is so commonplace as purifying and providing 3 million gallons of drinking water daily to 17,000 residents of Lake Mary. ...

A heavy truck toting a robust machine arrived a few months ago in a quiet Lake Mary neighborhood of medical offices, small shops and the city’s fire station No. 37. At the back of the mobile drilling rig, workers lowered a steel snout to the ground and bored a pair of holes several hundred feet into the earth and into the Floridan Aquifer. It was a renewed effort to probe for the 1,4-dioxane ...