After being in operation since 1964 and spewing about 14 million gallons of treated sewage PER DAY onto endangered corals and reef tracts one mile off Atlantic Avenue in Delray Florida , the Delray Beach Pipe was turned off!
On April 1st, of this year the outfall pipe carrying the waste of Delray and Boynton Beach residents was turned off for regular use. The sewage treatment plant in Delray Florida is the first outfall of six in South Florida to discontinue the practice of dumping over the next few years.
The decision was the culmination of a four-year struggle led by the nonprofit Palm Beach County Reef Rescue and more recently the assistance of the Palm Beach County Surfrider Chapter to draw attention to the effects of the outfall on the nearby coral reef system, which has been suffocating in recent years under a pollution-fed toxic algae bloom. Local member Kerri Smith lead the campaign overseeing legal research, outreach and education.
You can watch it in action and after being shut off here:
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDZ46EfCOW0
Congrats to all those involved in getting this disgusting and dangerous practice stopped. 
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