, Fla. — Brevard County’s Save Our Indian River Lagoon (SOIRL) Program recently completed its 100th pollution reduction project.
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It involved an upgrade to a wastewater treatment plant in the City of Rockledge.
Over the course of a decade, the Save Our Indian River Lagoon Program will undertake more than 400 projects countywide, from Mims to Micco, to improve the health of the Indian River Lagoon.
However, the county will celebrate its latest milestone this Saturday with the Clams Across the Lagoon Event in Titusville.
100,000 clams will be scattered from the Max Brewer Bridge.
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SOIRL projects improve wastewater treatment plants, fix leaking sewer lines, remove or upgrade septic systems, treat stormwater, remove muck from the lagoon, reduce residential pollution, restore oysters, clams, seagrass, and plant shoreline buffers.
Brevard County voters adopted a half-cent sales tax in 2016 to support the projects.
The Clams Across the Lagoon Event is being held at Sand Point Park. The clam release will take place at 10:30 a.m. at the Max Brewer Bridge, and a program will follow.
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