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OVIEDO, Fla. - More than 23,000 gallons of untreated waste water was spilled when a construction crew mistakenly cut through an unmarked sewer line.

The City of Oviedo is in the middle of a $1 million construction project to extend a reclaimed water line into the city. Currently, the city sometimes brings in water from Orlando to help meet the demand. It also forced the issuance of a pollutant warning from the Florida Department of Environmental Protection.

And it has bubbled up disagreement over the apparent cost of the project and the expected benefits – and whether they're worth it or not, FOX 35 has learned.

"It's raw sewage leaked into a wetland and mitigated the best we could, but it's still out there," said Oviedo Mayor Megan Sladek. "So Sweetwater Creek is being mon

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