Dec. 2 (UPI) -- Jeff Bezos's aerospace company, Blue Origin, is seeking permission to dump wastewater that would flow into the Indian River Lagoon, an environmentally sensitive waterway in Florida that officials are trying to restore.
The Brevard County commission was scheduled Tuesday to discuss Blue Origin's permit application to discharge industrial wastewater from its manufacturing facility in Florida's central Atlantic coastal community.
"That's really troubling to me especially when we are spending so much money as a community on the half-cent sales tax and the save the Indian River Lagoon tax," Brevard County Commissioner Katie Delaney told Fox 35.
Blue Origin is seeking permission to discharge more than half a million gallons of processed and unprocessed industrial wastewater each day into a pond that will flow into the Indian River, according to its permit.
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