Dairies and Pollution
Florida fails to protect the aquifer from huge amounts of nitrogen from dairies. OSFR advisor Dr. Bob Knight has done a study on this topic. Read the original article here in the Tampa Bay Times. […]
Unsafe Toxins Halt Florida’s Popular Pasco Scallop Season for 2nd Year In a Row
What is missing from this article? Important information is missing: the cause, the solution and what the state is doing about it. Answers are: 1) too many nitrates in the water from fertilizer, septic tanks […]
FDEP Fights Against Protecting Manatees
This is more about a fight over water than a fight over manatees. The State of Florida has allowed its waterways to become so polluted that the grasses on which manatees feed cannot grow. […]
Article Misses Main Point
Articles like these are extremely frustrating because they leave out the most important information: the preventable causes which our state chooses to ignore. Instead, they spend millions on treating symptoms. Not to say that […]
Water traces and the Ichetucknee
Look around your yard and neighborhood, observe where the rainwater flows. These are the traces, a name given to the path water takes as it follows gravity down to the lowest point. Sometimes traces are […]
IFAS Has No Credibility Here
We question the statements of IFAS regarding urban fertilizer because of their past misinformation and the red flags present here. The fertilizer lobby is powerful and we believe politics and money are involved here. As […]
More Dead Fish For Florida
Not good for tourism. Too much heat, too many nutrients. Read the complete article here in Sun Sentinel. Comments by OSFR historian Jim Tatum. jim.tatum@oursantaferiver.org – A river is like a life: once taken, […]
Urban Fertilizer Continues In News
Although we have posted this before, it remains a current topic in Florida’s newspapers. IFAS has been exposed for promoting unnecessary fertilizer usage by dispensing inaccurate information. There is no way to remove the stink […]
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