BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. – Brevard County might ask voters to pay for cleaning the Indian River Lagoon for another 10 years.

Tuesday, county commissioners will pick up the debate over renewing the 2016 half-cent sales tax when it expires next Election Day.

Supporters like Craig Wallace, the chairman of the Brevard Indian River Lagoon Coalition, argue that restoring the polluted waters of the lagoon could take multiple decades.

The tax sunsetting next year passed on Election Day in 2016 after pollution was blamed for killing thousands of fish.

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“The experience from restoration efforts in multiple places around the country have been that it takes 20 to 40 years to actually, fully restore an estuary that was impaired as much as this

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