‘It’s better for people to hear directly from the city:’ Oviedo mayor says sewage spill was avoidable

23,000 gallons of sewage spills in Oviedo

Crews are monitoring a sewage spill in Oviedo that the Mayor called preventable. This was the result of a mistake made during the construction of a $1 million project the mayor thinks was a waste of taxpayer dollars.

‘It’s better for people to hear directly from the city:’ Oviedo mayor says sewage spill was avoidable

For anyone who didn’t know that 23,000 gallons of sewage spilled in Oviedo last week, they do now. The mayor posted about the incident on Facebook and said the spill never should have happened in the first place because the city never should’ve started work on a nearly $1 million reclaimed water project. News 6 met with Mayor Megan Sladek, who said on Tuesday she brought the spill to the public’s attention because she wanted people to hear it di…