Good news all around on increases in sustainable energy in Florida. Read the original article here at the Invading Sea. Comments by OSFR historian Jim Tatum. jim.tatum@oursantaferiver.org – A river is like a life: once […]
“The problem is these things are a balancing act,” said UF fisheries professor Mike Allen, the study’s lead author and director of the Nature Coast Biological Station Nitrogen concentrations in north Florida’s groundwater average […]
Water follows the slope down valleys called swales. Swales line our roads, and surround our homes. Swales lead run-off from rainfall to our streams, rivers, and sinkholes. When blocked by debris, water will flow to […]
Florida lost a great defender of the environment with the passing of Joe Little. OSFR had ties with him when he filed a lawsuit to protect the Santa Fe River from the egregious over-pumping […]
The river transitions at O’Leno. This stretch of the river marks the end of the upper Santa Fe. This dark and narrow passageway takes us from the confined to the unconfined aquifer. The upper Santa […]
“…start siphoning as much as 10 million gallons of water a day from the South Prong of the Black Creek and pushing it through 17 miles of piping to Alligator Creek, into a drain […]
Florida’s dry season usually arrives by late October, lasting through the “winter” months into early spring. May through October is our wet season. The Suwannee River Water Management District produces a Monthly Hydrological Report. September’s […]
The springs along the Suwannee and Santa Fe Rivers follow an ancient shoreline called the Cody Escarpment; a delineation of eroded soils, exposing the aquifer as many blue dots on the map. This escarpment was […]
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