Wakulla Springs success? Not so fast
Water district officials are playing a numbers game and are conveniently leaving out some critical information. Here Dr . Knight is calling them out and they should be ashamed. Paul Thurman knows the […]
Local Artist Turns Passion for Springs Into Planting Trees
Margaret Tolbert shared with us her love, appreciation and understanding of the springs hidden beneath the dam waters. This is reflected not only in her words, but in her unique artwork and by her physical […]
RE: Florida boaters. Shouldn’t we expect them to have learned how to avoid hitting each other?
This article by Craig Pittman hits close to home, as we have recently experienced a near-fatal accident on the Santa Fe River at the doorstep of OSFR’s president. During 16 years of living on […]
Safety was the theme May 30 on the lower Santa Fe River
This article is Michael Roth’s recent post in our newsletter. The Palm Beach Post ran it today, June 4, 2020, and due to the important safety message, we chose to re-run it here. See the […]
Make a Comment to FERC on Sabal Trail, Deadline April 13, 2020
Surprisingly, Sabal Trail has gone way past their deadline for completion of all phases of its pipeline. The original deadline for Phase II Compressor Stations at Albany and Dunnellon was Feb. 2, 2018, but […]
Band-Aids aren’t enough
The following letter by John Moran appeared in the Gainesville Sun today, March 10, 2020. We chose not to print the op-ed by the former SRWMD employee because it is obviously too biased to present […]
Florida Sierra Club Sends Letter to DEP
The following letter from Sierra Club to the head of FDEP makes a request. It is self evident that non-compliance would show that this agency is driven by political forces rather than a desire to […]
Don’t water down ways to stop pollution
The usual promises, but still we fail to address the biggest polluter of North Florida’s rivers and springs– agriculture. Understandably so because their lobby is the strongest, but if we are to save our water […]
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