Construction site that let foam debris blow into Biscayne Bay gets a fine

The construction site that sent a stream of foam blocks floating across Biscayne Bay this weekend faces a small fine from Miami-Dade County.

A spokesperson for Miami-Dade’s Division of Environmental Resources Management said the agency was delivering a dumping citation with a $500 fine on Monday to Missoni Baia, a waterfront project in the Edgewater neighborhood.

Condos at the Oko Group’s 57-story tower sell for $1.5 million and more. DERM spokesperson Tere Florin said the debris was a version of Styrofoam, a material the county banned at parks for its pollution potential, but that the developer appeared to clean up most of the mess on land and by boat on Saturday.

Oko contractor Civic Construction released a statement Monday that said: “Our team immediately cleaned the materials as soon as the storm passed. The Bay was free of debris within two hours of the storm.”

This story was originally published March 14, 2022 at 6:15 PM.