Plum Creek and Weyerhaeuser and massive developments. Sound familiar? Of course, but developers just never rest–this is about the most massive development in the history of Maine. And in remote lakes and natural areas. For […]
The FDOT has admitted that many counties and municipalities have expressed strong opposition to the Northern Turnpike Extension toll road through their areas, and have often been adamant and unanimous in this decision. Not so […]
The water district is essentially saying that the current residents in the area live in houses that should not have been allowed to be built. Allowing new structures which negatively affect old ones seems close […]
Kristin Ruben, ex-president and board member of OSFR, has forwarded the following information about this critical step in curbing development sprawl in Gainesville. We don’t have the infrastructure and especially we don’t have […]
Because of our dissimulating, do-nothing DEP and water management districts, Florida is daily sinking deeper and deeper into a water debt that will never be repaid and will be our undoing unless the state […]
Florida’s sewage systems are often old and inadequate with spills commonplace. Many cannot accommodate heavy rains. Valves break, lines rupture, and way too often human incompetence is the cause. There are many examples of this […]
Lu Merritt of the Ichetucknee Alliance has sent out the following letter. Please help if you are able. Comments by OSFR historian Jim Tatum. jim.tatum@oursantaferiver.org – A river is like a life: once taken, it […]
What a contrast here between the situation described below and the free for all, out-of-control water giveaway in Florida. Where anyone who applies is given a pumping permit, and where permits for wells under […]
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