By Mike Brassfield, Times Staff Writer
Saturday, December 18, 2010
“We used to fish out here,” says Bill Basore, 68, who lives on polluted Stevenson Creek in Clearwater. “But now you can’t catch anything out here.”
CLEARWATER — Bill Basore walks out to the end of his dock and plunges a 15-foot pole into Stevenson Creek. The tip of the pole sinks several feet into the chocolate-colored muck that lines the creek bed.
Basore pulls it out. It stinks.
He and his neighbors along the creek's estuary in north Clearwater are tired of waiting for it to be cleaned up. They've been waiting for years — some for decades. Because of an unexpected new delay with the cleanup project, they're going to have to keep waiting.
Stevenson Creek is one of Pinellas County's most polluted bodies of water. Rainwater from the creek's 6,000-acre watershed in ...