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Famous clean water activist comes to Stuart


Famous clean water activist comes to Stuart (WPEC)
Famous clean water activist comes to Stuart (WPEC)
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A champion in the fight for clean water, Erin Brockovich, is in Stuart encouraging other clean water advocates to keep up the fight.

Brockovich has fought for clean water across the country since exposing toxic water in her California community

She has seen toxic algae problems in other places, but says Martin County’s toxic algae is the worst she has seen.

“It is time for you to rise up!” said Brockovich to a crowd in Stuart.

Brockovich is in town encouraging others to fight for clean water.

“It sickens me to see what is happening,” says Brockovich.

She says many people have reached out to her about the toxic algae blooms on the Treasure Coast.

“We’ve been in areas where we can’t even stand the smell of it, dead sea life inside the algal blooms,” says Congressman Brian Mast.

The algae is trickling down from Lake Okeechobee.

Local activist Kim Streiber is one of many that look to Brockovich for inspiration.

“As someone who has been for water quality in our county for five years, I look at her as a mentor and a hero,” says Streiber.

“We’re dealing with tremendous discharges from our estuary,” says Streiber.

Brockovich says so far, the Martin County activists are taking the right action.

“The most successful solution is happening right now,” says Brockovich.

“It’s never left right . It’s right wrong, and what’s happening here is simply wrong,” says Brockovich.

Monday Brockovich will tour Lake Okeechobee, then make her way to the Everglades.

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