This tiny pocket springs has been called Hog, Jonathan, Bathtub, Sittin’, and Mermaid. It is the first spring within the Gilchrist Blue sub-basin, proceeding Rum Island Spring. It is a 3rd magnitude spring in Columbia County […]
Keeping our aquifer healthy means reducing fertilizer use and being more efficient with our water use. The Florida Department of Environmental Protection has identified the many sources of these Nitrates-N. Row crops, hay, beef and […]
Jonathan, Rum, Gilchrist Blue, and Naked Springs are within a sub-basin of the Devils Eye Springshed. Springsheds are complex, cavern dominated, and partially interrelated systems that “should be treated as one until additional research can […]
Usually we are opposed to pipelines to move water because water removed from somewhere will often have negative consequences elsewhere. But this plan is different, and will use wetlands to replenish the aquifer. Read the […]
Come out and support Our Santa Fe River at the Silent Auction to be held at the High Springs Brewery at 18562 NW 237th St, High Springs, FL 32643 on May 10th during Pioneer Days. […]
Pickard Spring is a second magnitude spring in the Poe Springshed. It is slightly downriver from Lily Spring, and on the same side of the river. Pickard is on the river’s edge, and on private […]
The following article was distributed by Alachua Conservation Trust. This organization has secured more land protecting the Santa Fe River than any other agency. We are very grateful to and fully support ACT. Read the […]
Please watch this short video of our latest OSFR adventure where our members went into the Santa Fe College Bat Cave and were able to see the Floridan Aquifer up close. The excursion was led […]
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