Although the article emphasizes lead in the water, the bill also includes the green algae which plague the Santa Fe River. Algae proliferate due to excess nitrates from fertilizer and septic tanks, exacerbated by reduced […]
In an article in USA Today Donalds is quoted as follows: He promised to make Florida ‘the most business-friendly state in our country’ and to build on DeSantis’ environmental work, ‘making sure that we finish […]
Water management districts occasionally purchase environmentally lands and do a few good projects, but they carefully protect polluters and water abusers, and they allow our springs and rivers to die. Read the complete article here […]
The Florida Legislative Session runs like a marathon from March 4, 2025 through May 2, 2025. Bills are already being crafted and it is our responsibility to engage with our representatives to let them know […]
Mosaic territory is far from the Santa Fe River basin, but OSFR has been heavily involved in opposing phosphate mining due to its destruction of the environment and the close-to-home threat of HPSII. Mosaic […]
The gar in this video were photographed last year in February, 2024. This year the Ichetucknee State Park closed for several weeks while a crew removed fallen trees from the park waters. Fallen tree limbs, […]
Water transfer proposals for the Suwannee River Basin (in which the Santa Fe River is located) occasionally surface. Water transfers almost never achieve what their instigators expect. This is because you cannot take water from an […]
The Santa Fe River begins with the rainwater-fed lakes Santa Fe and Alto over by Waldo. The river then winds its way north through the Santa Fe Swamp. These rainwater fed lakes formed on the […]
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