FLORIDA — Blue Origin is renewing an agreement with Florida’s Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) to be allowed to dump about 500,000 gallons of industrial wastewater into the Indian River.

This has caused environmentalists to petition the agreement.

In a public notice , the DEP stated that the permit would allow Blue Origin, which recently had a successful launch of its New Glenn rocket , to dump 500,000 gallons daily of both processed and non-processed wastewater.

The DEP stated “0.49 MGD (million gallons per day) of process wastewater and discharge 0.015 MGD of non-process wastewater” would go into a large onsite stormwater pond and then into the Indian River.

A Blue Origin spokesperson said this is a renewal of an existing permit.

"This is a renewal of an existing agre

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