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Impaired Water Rule Changes

April 27, 2019 THREATS, State Government Threats 1 Comment

The following notification for changes to the Impaired Water Rule has been sent. Note the links to the assessments. Note also the time and place for the Suwannee Basin is May 7 at 12:30 […]

Misleading Headlines in the Gainesville Sun

Silver Springs, heal thyself

April 5, 2019 THREATS, State Government Threats, Water Quantity Threats - Withdrawal Permits (under WMDs), Publications (letters, opinion pieces) Leave a Comment

Bob Knight: Silver Springs, heal thyself! Posted Apr 2, 2019 at 2:00 AM Silver Springs, perhaps the most iconic of all Florida’s springs, is dying under the watch of its water management district, and under the Department of Environmental Protection, […]

Bob Knight: Springs are beyond significant harm

February 5, 2019 Miscellaneous, State Government Threats, Water Quantity Threats - Withdrawal Permits (under WMDs), Water Quantity (Threats), Publications (letters, opinion pieces) Leave a Comment

The public deserves an explanation of the inconsistencies of logic described here by Bob Knight. Messrs. Noah Valenstein and Hugh Thomas, please respond to the public for whom you are working. Read the original article […]

Back to the Question of Polluters & Public Interest

June 30, 2015 Environmental Threats, Water Quality Threats - Biosolids, State Government Threats, Water Quality Threats, Miscellaneous 1 Comment

The Gainesville Sun has published Jake Fuller’s message to taxpayers in the Sunday, June 28 2015 edition. This reference is to the recent article, posted by OSFR here, as it directly bears upon the […]

“Clear, Predictable, and Consistent Implementation”

June 10, 2015 Water Quantity Threats - Withdrawal Permits (under WMDs) Leave a Comment

This week Tom has put his finger on a hot button which, if pushed (or as some say in the South, “mashed,”) may produce, at the very least, some more blogs and articles. There is […]

Politics Before Protection

May 14, 2015 Environmental Threats, State Government Threats, Miscellaneous, Water Quality Threats, Water Quantity (Threats), Publications (letters, opinion pieces) 2 Comments

Nathan Crabbe of the Gainesville Sun has written an editorial Tuesday which shines some light on the dark and shadowy actions of Governor Scott, who continues to pursue his mission of rampant destruction of the water […]

Everything is Awesome

March 15, 2015 Environmental Threats Leave a Comment

Tom of the Watery Foundation (who will speak to us at “Water Voices” in High Springs on April 27) has some very light satire regarding our former leader at the DEP. But what he writes […]

Less Is Less

January 18, 2015 Environmental Threats, Water Quality Threats Leave a Comment

On January 18, 2015 at 07:38PM, Tom at Watery Foundation published the following article: Every year, the Florida Department of Management Services publishes a “Workforce Report.” Last week’s annual report received only a little press […]

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