Water Quantity Threats – Minimum Flows & Levels (MFLs) (set by DEP)

Proliferation of Pumping Permits Produces Preposterous Pipeline Proposal

June 17, 2021 THREATS, Environmental Threats, Conservation, Water Quantity Threats - Minimum Flows & Levels (MFLs) (set by DEP), Environmental Threats - Development, State Government Threats, Water Quality Threats - Fertilizers, Water Quantity Threats - Withdrawal Permits (under WMDs), Water Quality Threats, Water Quantity (Threats) 3 Comments

The Santa Fe River is endangered by over-pumping of water from the Floridan Aquifer. Credit: Florida Department of Environmental Regulation Well, the Suwannee River Water Management District has received another verbal barrage […]

Vultures circle a tropical paradise in Florida as Brevard County’s graveyard of manatees grows–

May 12, 2021 Water Quantity Threats - Minimum Flows & Levels (MFLs) (set by DEP), THREATS, State Government Threats, Water Quantity Threats - Withdrawal Permits (under WMDs), Water Quality Threats, Water Quality Threats - Fertilizers, Water Quantity (Threats), Water Quality Threats - Septic Tanks, Water Quality Threats - Sewage Spills Leave a Comment

The sewage, detritus and fertilizers we have been dumping into our coastal waters for decades have created blooms of bad plant life while choking to death the seagrass on which the manatees and other marine life […]

Study contends Santa Fe continues to decline, and the water district allows it.

March 1, 2021 Environmental Threats, Water Quantity Threats - Minimum Flows & Levels (MFLs) (set by DEP), THREATS, State Government Threats, Water Quantity Threats - Withdrawal Permits (under WMDs), Water Quality Threats, Miscellaneous, Water Quantity (Threats), Water Quality Threats - Plastics Leave a Comment

Say what they may, the Suwannee River Water Management District has an “F” grade in protecting the Santa Fe River and its springs. It appears they use models for theories when they have the […]

Fla. failing to save springs from decline — a deliberate and premeditated policy

February 28, 2021 Environmental Threats, THREATS, Conservation, Water Quantity Threats - Minimum Flows & Levels (MFLs) (set by DEP), Environmental Threats - Development, State Government Threats, Water Quality Threats - Fertilizers, Water Quantity Threats - Withdrawal Permits (under WMDs), Water Quality Threats, Water Quantity (Threats) Leave a Comment

This editorial is truth and fact: our state is deliberately and consistently allowing the death of our springs and rivers, and they are doing it to promote business and industry. We have strong and […]

Not The Best Available Science

February 10, 2021 Water Quantity Threats - Minimum Flows & Levels (MFLs) (set by DEP) Leave a Comment

We attended virtually the Suwannee River Water Management District meeting this morning Tues., Feb. 9, 2021, and we reached a low of disappointment. We addressed the Board regarding the new and revised MFLs, which […]

IFAS Webinar on Restoring Florida Springs

January 18, 2021 THREATS, Environmental Threats, Water Quantity Threats - Minimum Flows & Levels (MFLs) (set by DEP), State Government Threats, Environmental Threats - Development, Miscellaneous, Water Quantity Threats - Withdrawal Permits (under WMDs), Water Quality Threats, Water Quality Threats - Fertilizers, Water Quantity (Threats) 1 Comment

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How ‘DeathSantis’ could become ‘Governor Green

November 19, 2020 Conservation, Water Quantity Threats - Minimum Flows & Levels (MFLs) (set by DEP), Environmental Threats - Climate Change, THREATS, Environmental Threats, State Government Threats, Environmental Threats - Development, Water Quality Threats, Miscellaneous, Water Quality Threats - Fertilizers, Water Quantity Threats - Withdrawal Permits (under WMDs), Water Quantity (Threats) 1 Comment

Wow. Just wow. This letter is amazing. Besides being so true, it is just totally common sense. As Craig Pittman says, there are plenty off other environmental issues he could jump on, and one […]

Knight sounds alarm over plight of Florida’s springs

October 8, 2020 THREATS, Environmental Threats, Water Quantity Threats - Minimum Flows & Levels (MFLs) (set by DEP), Environmental Threats - Development, State Government Threats, Water Quality Threats - Fertilizers, Water Quantity Threats - Withdrawal Permits (under WMDs), Water Quality Threats, Water Quantity (Threats) Leave a Comment

Florida has the knowledge and the money to restore the springs but they have not restored one spring because they lack the political will. They either throw money at useless projects that do not address […]

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