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Seminole County commissioners on Tuesday considered urging Florida lawmakers in the coming weeks to adopt a statewide policy during next year’s legislative session that provides more protective standards for Florida’s drinking water. The move follows a recent investigative series by the Orlando Sentinel that reported an extensive contamination of the industrial chemical 1,4-dioxane in the ...

Leaders in Seminole County are working to manage concerns about a compound found in the drinking water.

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 ...

For years and even decades, tens of thousands of people in northwest Seminole County, Lake Mary and Sanford have been drinking water containing a toxic industrial chemical at varying concentrations, the Orlando Sentinel has found. The chemical, 1,4-dioxane, is deemed likely to cause liver and kidney cancer and other illnesses by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Labeled a contaminant of ...

Charlotte County's Bill Truex has been announced as the 2023 - 2024 president of the Florida Association of Counties board of directors.

A committee would be established to identify available lands and establish priorities.

Seminole would annually dedicate 5% — about $3 million under the current budget — of non-ad-valorem revenues collected by the county to fund the land acquisition program.

Seminole commissioners on Tuesday agreed to move forward with establishing a countywide program that would purchase environmentally sensitive natural lands for conservation and passive recreation, thereby protecting open areas from sprawling developments. “If we do this, we will be the first [county] in the state that has done this,” said Commissioner Lee Constantine in support of the proposed ...

Florida's $117 million budget awaiting Gov. DeSantis signature and other state legislation could have big impacts for Central Florida.

Seminole County commissioners approved a plan to build a storage facility despite objections from Winter Springs.