Analysis: Water pollution puts Floridians at risk, but government monitoring is scant

Analysis: Water pollution puts Floridians at risk, but government monitoring is scant

When they arrived in Longboat Key this February, Carol Leone and her family were excited for two weeks of relaxation in the salty breeze. Within days, they started to cough. Soon, Leone’s voice vanished. “I just kept getting worse day by day,” she said. By the second week of her stay, the 76-year-old struggled to breathe. Legions of dead, rotting fish washed up on the beach. Leone saw the carnage as confirmation of a creeping suspicion: Somethin…