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Mar 6, 2008 9:44 am US/Eastern

Water Managers Stuck With Muck

WEST PALM BEACH (CBS4) ― Tons and tons of contaminated muck dragged from the bottom of Lake Okeechobee during a cleaning and restoration project is not going anywhere fast because of our rising gas prices.

South Florida water management officials had hoped to sell the nearly two million cubic yards of muck to area farms as a fertilizer substitute but few farmers are interested in trucking it in because of the high fuel costs.

Last year, more than $11-million dollars was spent to clean the arsenic laden muck off the lake's bottom to restore bird and fish habitats; it now sits piled on land between the lake's dike and the lake's receded waterline. Water managers say the muck poses no risk to the lake.

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