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Tuesday's Daily Pulse
What you need to know about Florida today
› Researchers track high levels of COVID-19 in Florida wastewater
It’s an overcast, but beautiful Sunday evening near Ben T. Davis Beach along the Courtney Campbell Causeway. People are out enjoying a nice swim and break from the heat. But some researchers now want to know if bodies of water, like Tampa Bay, and others around the state could potentially contain dangerous levels of COVID-19 coronavirus after accidental sewage spills.
› Reopening Jacksonville: Buffet restaurants struggle to recover from COVID-19
Arden’s Kountry Kafe & Katering is known throughout Northeast Florida for its fried chicken, Kountry fried steak, chicken livers and gizzards, collard greens, mac & cheese, tomatoes with okra, roast beef, baked chicken and other Southern comfort food. It survived the mandatory, month-long COVID-19 shutdown. Co-owners Arden and Michelle de Saussure worry the buffet restaurant might have to close its doors permanently because of federal reopening recommendations they and other restaurateurs say unfairly target buffets.
› Another water main break, another boil order in Fort Lauderdale
A water main break in Rio Vista forced city officials to send out a boil-water order to nearby properties on Sunday — one of four issued in neighborhoods around Fort Lauderdale in less than two weeks. Fort Lauderdale plans to spend $600 million over the next five years fixing and replacing the city’s underground network of aging water and sewer pipes. The total tally will come to at least $1.4 billion over the next 20 years, experts say.
› St. Pete Pier preparing for delayed reveal
Had the Pier opened on May 30, as promised more than two months ago, it’s likely that not all elements of the $92 million destination would have been ready for the big reveal. As it is, the coronavirus pandemic has bought St. Petersburg’s much-anticipated new Pier more time for restaurants to put on finishing touches and the project’s signature public art to be installed.
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