“Basically, since we have fertilizers in our water, all these lakes are going to eventually have algal blooms,” he said. “If you have a lake and it’s getting water from urban runoff […]
Florida not ready to fix the problem
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Handing federal wetlands permitting to FL DEP is an idea that’s all wet
Really, really bad news. Since the water enforcement policies in Tallahassee are rife, I mean rife, with politics, we can probably look forward to fast tracking of permits and more corruption as we have seen […]
Breaching dam would bring ecotourism benefits
The following article was published in the Florida Times Union and run by the Gainesville Sun on Sept. 12,a 2020 Comments by OSFR historian Jim Tatum. [email protected] – A river is like a life: once […]
Why Florida’s DEP stands for Delayed Environmental Protection
Since several Secretaries back, the DEP periodically puts out an article in several Florida newspaper explaining how wonderful our springs and rivers are, and what a good job the department is doing to preserve […]
Poe to be closed for five months.
Poe may be a second-magnitude spring and the largest in Alachua County, but over the years our water managers have not done their jobs to protect it, and it ceased flowing for the […]
Is a big phosphate company using legal tactics to scare FL environmentalists?
Craig Pittman is airing some dirty laundry here that has been aired before, but the way industry aided by our governor and our Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) is legally killing our environment and polluting […]