BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. — Efforts to clean up a major waterway in Central Florida are seeing some major milestones.
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Voters approved a half-cent sales tax to remove pollution from the Indian River Lagoon.
The “Save our Indian River Lagoon” project scattered around 100,000 clams from the Max Brewer Bridge on Saturday.
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The clams will help filter water over the course of a decade.
Save our Indian River Lagoon plans to take on over 400 projects across Brevard County.
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“I lived here for most of my life, so we’ve noticed quite a difference and in fact, talked with my parents about the oysters and the clams and everything. It made a very big impact on the lagoon as a whole,” a local resident said.
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