DEP: Mill pipeline close to approval - Florida Times Union

Florida officials are close to approving a new permit for a Putnam County paper mill planning a wastewater pipeline to the St. Johns River, a state environmental manager said Wednesday.

'It will be clearly in the public's interest,' Melissa Long, a water facilities administrator for the Department of Environmental Protection, told members of the Jacksonville Waterways Commission. 'It will lead to a net environmental benefit.'

She said there is still no time frame for issuing the permit, however.

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