Billionaires living on an exclusive island near Miami are at the center of a heated debate over sewage disposal. With no system in place, they’ve proposed sending their waste to a nearby town, but the deal comes with a hefty price tag.

Original article: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/us/indian-creek-surfside-billionaire-sewage.html

Without the paywall: https://archive.li/HrE38

Alternative: https://gizmodo.com/billionaire-island-where-bezos-lives-lobbies-state-gov-to-flush-its-poop-down-neighbor-towns-pipes-2000615795

Note

While the news is concerning, it seems Daily Galaxy had all the hallmarks of a content mill aping more legit sources. I had no idea because I follow a lot of RSS feeds and this had been sitting there for a while now. I choose it for the science stuff. Sorry. I honestly wasn’t aware.

  • panda_abyss@lemmy.ca
    42·
    23 hours ago

    So instead of a $10M municipal contract to upgrade the sewer lines, it was easier to just get the republicans to add a specific waver and force the neighbouring town to take their sewage.

    I’m pretty sure Bezos can find that in his couch, and the whole island is billionaires.