The manatees are starving to death say the experts, their food killed off by continual algal blooms. If this is true we must blame the Florida Department of Environmental Protection for not having the political […]
The Middle and Lower Suwannee River and Withlacoochee River Task Force subcommittee of the North Central Florida Regional Planning Council met virtually on May 20, 2020. For the first thirty minutes of the meeting […]
Please register and leave your voice as opposed to further destruction and pollution of our water resources. Read the original article here in the Albany Herald. Comments by OSFR historian Jim Tatum. jim.tatum@oursantaferiver.org – A […]
The second paragraph in the following article implies that Valdosta is unfairly paying for the mistake of another. By its own admission, Valdosta failed in its oversight of the repairs and its employee inexcusably […]
Suwannee Democrat Although the latest huge Valdosta spill now has passed the Withlacoochee River, new problems from sewage spills may have arrived, as scientists now say the coronavirus may live in human fecal material. […]
For a period of several years, sewage spills from the City of Valdosta has been the on-going source of ever-increasing fecal contamination in the Suwannee River. As if the spills were not bad […]
The colossal December sewage spill from Valdosta is just now reaching the Suwannee River, and Floridians have not forgotten. A reminder that this task force will meet Jan. 23 in Lake City, 4 PM, and […]
Thanks to Merrillee Malwitz-Jipson for this advisory about the task force meeting. This has been an on-going problem for years, but the last spill in December 2019 was by far the worst and put hundreds […]
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