It Doesn’t Sound Good.
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 Transfer Not the Solution
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 […]
Wastewater Spill near the Santa Fe Swamp
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 […]
The Devil and Rum
“The river below ” was the simplistic way I was introduced to our aquifer. I imagined a mirror image of the Santa Fe in triplicate, coursing below the actual river. Instead, limestone caves, and channels, […]
Our Dying Springs
The following video is from the Florida Springs Council. It depicts the heartbreaking scene of reality of North Florida Springs. I began diving these springs in 1977 and I can attest that this was not […]
Rum Island Muse
The following was written and published by Lucinda Faulkner Merritt in 2017. As foretold in this article, Rum Island spring has spent much of this past year in reversal; the pressure from the artesian blue […]
Rum Island Spring
Artesian aquifer pushes back tannic river water in this image taken in 2014. A 2nd magnitude spring, it typically releases 6.5-65 million gallons/day. The vent is only a few yards from the Santa Fe River, […]
More Over-pumping Woes Allowed By State of Florida
Read the original article here in the Invading Sea. Comments by OSFR historian Jim Tatum. jim.tatum@oursantaferiver.org – A river is like a life: once taken, it cannot be brought back © Jim Tatum Saltwater intrusion […]
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