OVIEDO, Fla. – 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 directly from city leaders.

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“I think it’s better for people to hear directly from the city,” Sladek said. “We just want to be transparent about it.”

Sladek also shared a document from the Florida Department of Environmental Protection which shows a contractor w

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