Water Quality Testing and Citizen Scientists
I am sure you are not alone if you feel that your efforts to protect or improve the waters of Florida are ineffective, unimportant or not impactful. It is easy to become discouraged but there […]
Deep Well Injections
OSFR has long opposed injection wells to dispose of waste water. This is akin to the easy solution of dumping garbage into a river so that is disappears. Manasota-88 lists many good reasons for not […]
Misleading Chest Beating
The Suwannee River Water Management District has sent the following press release, listing environmentally beneficial projects recently funded. Not to be misunderstood, we heartily approve of these projects. However, it is to be noted that […]
Excess Nitrates Feed Red Tide
Science tells us that although red tide may occur naturally, Florida’s pollution-causing water policies are to blame for its exacerbation. Excess nitrates from farm fertilizer, sewage spills, and septic tanks do much to proliferate and […]
Another Form of Pollution In Our Waterways
Still another form of pollution for our waterways. Read the original article here in The Invading Sea. Comments by OSFR historian Jim Tatum. jim.tatum@oursantaferiver.org – A river is like a life: once taken, it cannot […]
Scientists Denounce Trump Administration’s Climate Report
Intellectual dishonesty is inexcusable at any time, but is especially so when found among our so called leaders. Read the original article here in the New York Times. Comments by OSFR historian Jim Tatum. jim.tatum@oursantaferiver.org […]
DEP Treats Chemours With Kid Gloves
Chemours has long been a repeat violator of mining rules and polluter of downriver water ways and wetlands. Their issues date back decades, having been put under a consent order by the DEP in 1997 […]
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