That the State of Florida and our Suwannee River Water Management District have lost control of our water purity is manifest here by this press release. Reading between the lines we see that the algae invasion is once more in the news since the 2012 drought brought this unnecessary problem to light.
Hitting very close to OSFR’s home is Gilchrist Blue, with Hornsby not far up river.
SRWMD, you can monitor all you want, but please begin to solve the problem which causes this situation. Monitoring will not fix anything.
You know how to fix it and that is to limit nutrients and stop over-pumping.
“This monitoring program will allow the District to evaluate relationships between algae, aquatic vegetation, spring flows and other environmental variables to develop MFLs that protect our local springs,” said Sean King, Chief of the Office of MFLs.
Contrary to what Mr. Sean King says, the MFLs do not protect the springs. What they do is allow the DEP to legally withdraw more and more water from them. The MFLs are a license to slowly kill the springs.
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
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SRWMD Expands Algae Monitoring Program to Four New Springs in the Suwannee River Basin
LIVE OAK, FLA, NOVEMBER 18, 2022 – The Suwannee River Water Management District (District) is expanding its algae monitoring program to include four additional priority springs in North Florida.
