KeystoneHeightsColl In: Utilities challenge strategy to raise Keystone Heights lake levels; costs questioned-- | Our Santa Fe River, Inc. (OSFR) | Protecting the Santa Fe River

Utilities challenge strategy to raise Keystone Heights lake levels; costs questioned–

Here we see agencies’ complaints and challenges to this ill-conceived plan  for all the wrong reasons. This project, on the outer fringes of the Santa Fe basin, has been on-going for years.  OSFR believes that […]

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corralmiami1 In: To ‘The Fellowship of the Springs,’ Florida is selling out an environmental treasure | Our Santa Fe River, Inc. (OSFR) | Protecting the Santa Fe River

To ‘The Fellowship of the Springs,’ Florida is selling out an environmental treasure

    In this excellent piece, Oscar Corral documents very well just how Florida is killing its environmental treasure for money.  The spokespersons for the state agencies whom he quotes here in this article have no  […]

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oyster reef pubdomain In: Why America’s water wars are futile: Cynthia Barnett | Our Santa Fe River, Inc. (OSFR) | Protecting the Santa Fe River

Why America’s water wars are futile: Cynthia Barnett

  Cynthia Barnett has written Mirage: Florida and the Vanishing Water of the Eastern U.S. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. 2007. ISBN 978-0-47211-563-1. Blue Revolution: Unmaking America’s Water Crisis. Boston: Beacon Press. 2011. ISBN 978-0-80700-317-6. Rain: […]

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roundup3FI In: Study: More than half of Florida's manatees have the herbicide glyphosate in their bodies | Our Santa Fe River, Inc. (OSFR) | Protecting the Santa Fe River

Study: More than half of Florida’s manatees have the herbicide glyphosate in their bodies

  We seem to be doing our level best to assure that the manatee will not survive.  Our agencies need to act and fast! “Manatees are Exhibit A that Florida’s waters are in crisis and […]

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Quarterman MMJFI In: Guest opinion: Floridians have the right to know if our waters are safe -- | Our Santa Fe River, Inc. (OSFR) | Protecting the Santa Fe River

Guest opinion: Floridians have the right to know if our waters are safe —

    This problem is not limited to Florida south of I-4, it is here in North Florida as well.  Thanks to OSFR’s Merrillee Malwitz-Jipson and Suwannee RiverKeeper John Quarterman, more monitoring of the the […]

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