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The Florida Department of Environmental Protection has issued a draft proposal that would allow nearly 500,000 gallons of wastewater daily at Blue Origin’s Merritt Island facilities that would affect the Indian River Lagoon.

The permit would allow Jeff Bezos’ rocket company to operate an industrial wastewater treatment facility that could dispense up to 0.49 million gallons per day. Of that total, up to 15,000 gallons per day could be for nonprocessed wastewater.

All of it would be discharged into a large stormwater pond with more than 400,000 square feet of surface area, but then flow into the Indian River Lagoon in north Brevard County.

“This is a renewal of an existing agreement that has been in place for more than five years,” the compan

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