FSCbob In: Florida Congressional Delegation to Convene on Water Quality Challenges | Our Santa Fe River, Inc. (OSFR) | Protecting the Santa Fe River

Florida Congressional Delegation to Convene on Water Quality Challenges

Unfortunately, this delegation will not hear from some of “Florida’s leading voices on the environment” that  they should be hearing. We could start with the Florida Springs Council and add the Florida Springs Institute. Readers […]

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nikki fried In: Nikki Fried Promises to Get Tough on AG Businesses That Foul the Water | Our Santa Fe River, Inc. (OSFR) | Protecting the Santa Fe River

Nikki Fried Promises to Get Tough on AG Businesses That Foul the Water

  We like Nikki Fried for several reasons, not the least is that she is by far the greenest member of our current brown, brown cabinet, and we commend her efforts to reduce polystyrene. Unfortunately, […]

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SJRWMD boblisa In: Time to Act on Causes of Toxic Algae | Our Santa Fe River, Inc. (OSFR) | Protecting the Santa Fe River

Time to Act on Causes of Toxic Algae

Until Florida officials find the political will to tackle these big problems, massive algae blooms are probably going to be a fact of life. And spot solutions will never make up for the damage Floridians […]

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poe springs In: Florida’s springs deserve more money and more attention, before it’s too late | Editorial | Our Santa Fe River, Inc. (OSFR) | Protecting the Santa Fe River

Florida’s springs deserve more money and more attention, before it’s too late | Editorial

We commend the Orlando Sentinel for this commentary, and they are right on the button when they say agriculture must adjust its consumption of water and fertilizer. Their editors do not realize though, that the […]

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SANTAFERIVER pittman In: Proliferation of Pumping Permits Produces Preposterous Pipeline Proposal | Our Santa Fe River, Inc. (OSFR) | Protecting the Santa Fe River

Proliferation of Pumping Permits Produces Preposterous Pipeline Proposal

    The Santa Fe River is endangered by over-pumping of water from the Floridan Aquifer. Credit: Florida Department of Environmental Regulation   Well, the Suwannee River Water Management District has received another verbal barrage […]

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Blue gree algae bloom Lake ErieNOAH public In: Vultures circle a tropical paradise in Florida as Brevard County's graveyard of manatees grows-- | Our Santa Fe River, Inc. (OSFR) | Protecting the Santa Fe River

Vultures circle a tropical paradise in Florida as Brevard County’s graveyard of manatees grows–

The sewage, detritus and fertilizers we have been dumping into our coastal waters for decades have created blooms of bad plant life while choking to death the seagrass on which the manatees and other marine life […]

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TTO PHOTO 1 In: Study contends Santa Fe continues to decline, and the water district allows it. | Our Santa Fe River, Inc. (OSFR) | Protecting the Santa Fe River

Study contends Santa Fe continues to decline, and the water district allows it.

  Say what they may, the Suwannee River Water Management District has an “F” grade in protecting the Santa Fe River and  its springs.  It appears  they use models for theories when they have the […]

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Jim Tatum - Why I Love The Santa Fe

Fla. failing to save springs from decline — a deliberate and premeditated policy

  This editorial is truth and fact:  our state is deliberately and consistently allowing the death of our springs and rivers, and they are doing it to promote business and industry. We have strong and […]

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