Twin Pines Minerals Meeting a Disappointment
Five OSFR members, all riparian landowners, four of whom were board members, made the trip to Folkston, Georgia on Tuesday, August 13, to give input to Twin Pines Minerals, who wants a permit to mine […]
Bottling permit risks harm to environment – Gainesville Sun Editorial
The Gainesville Sun has the following excellent editorial in today’s August 11, 2019 newspaper. Nestle claims they only bottle water from sustainable sources. It is a fact that current usage of the Santa Fe […]
Alachua County Commission Decides To Repeal Plastic Ban After Lawsuit Threat
Money over environment. This is disappointing but we have confidence in the Alachua County Commission and support them. Some restaurants, such as Mi Apá in Alachua, are caring enough and have the intelligent foresight to […]
Nestlé asking to pump millions of gallons of bottled water from Ginnie Springs
We must advise Nestle that the water from Ginnie Springs is not being managed in a sustainable way. The flow is way down from past years and it is still declining, it is not improving. […]
Silence Continues in Bradford County
At the Bradford County BOCC meeting on August 5, the silence on HPS II continued. As far as we know, progress towards acquisition of the HPS II permit is on hold awaiting the report from […]
Continuance of Public Hearing: Nestle Waters North America Inc., Site Plan Review
We have spoken recently of the permit renewal submitted by Seven Springs Water to ship water to Nestle at their Ginnie Springs plant. This is the meeting where the Gilchrist County Commission approved the permits […]
ACTION ALERT
Nestle sets its sights on the Santa Fe River Our Santa Fe River, which successfully stopped several water bottling operations in and around the Santa Fe River years ago, is once again confronted with […]
Drawing water Nestlé wants to pump millions of gallons from Ginnie Springs
Our river is under siege. Seven Springs Water company, a local business which pumps water for Nestlé whose wells are within a few hundred feet of Ginnie Springs, has applied to the Suwannee River Water […]
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