A project to reduce nutrient pollution in two of Central Florida’s freshwater springs is now complete. Orange County staff and partners gathered Wednesday to celebrate the culmination of the septic-to-sewer conversion project in Pine Hills.
The project brought 95 properties — 30 residential and 65 commercial — onto the county’s centralized sewer system. All previously relied on septic tanks.
The properties sit along Pine Hills Road, just north of West Colonial Drive and west of Barnett Park. They’re located within the Priority Focus Area for the state’s Basin Management Action Plan, or BMAP, to reduce pollution and improve water quality in the Wekiwa Spring and Rock Springs watershed…