ARTICLE REFERENCE: South Florida Water Management District Lays out plans for Everglades Agricultural Area (EAA) Storage reservoir project EAA Without Delay The SFWMD is working hard to continue accelerating the Everglades Agricultural Area (EAA) Storage Reservoir. A component of the…

ARTICLE REFERENCE: Corps takes action to lower Lake Okeechobee in advance of wet seasonSugar’s decades-long hold over Everglades came with a price The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Jacksonville District will increase flows from Lake Okeechobee to stem the recent…

ARTICLE REFERENCE: ARMY CORPS WANTS ‘IMMEDIATE’ CHANGES TO LAKE OKEECHOBEE MANAGEMENT By Kimberly Miller Posted Jul 17, 2019 at 8:54 AM Updated Jul 18, 2019 at 12:33 PM Changes in how Lake Okeechobee is managed are in such an “immediate” need that the Army Corps of Engineers is rushing through rule…

ARTICLE REFERENCE: Basin Management Action Plans (BMAPs) What is a Basin Management Action Plan (BMAP)? It is the “blueprint” for restoring impaired waters by reducing pollutant loadings to meet the allowable loadings established in a Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL).…

ARTICLE REFERENCE: BGATF Final Report Blue-Green Algae Task Force Consensus Document #1 11 October 2019  The Blue-Green Algae Task Force is an advisory body, appointed by Governor Ron DeSantis, to aid the Department of Environmental Protection in fulfilling its mission…

ARTICLE REFERENCE: Letter to Chief Science Officer RE: Clean Waterways Act SB 712 February 12, 2020 Dr. Thomas K. Frazer Chief Science Officer 3900 Commonwealth Boulevard Tallahassee, FL 32399 RE: “Clean Waterways Act” SB 712  Dr. Frazer, We write to…

ARTICLE REFERENCE: Clean-water coalition asks governor to veto watered-down legislation By Laura Cassels – March 24, 2020 A coalition of 50 clean-water organizations in Florida are calling on Gov. Ron DeSantis to veto the 2020 Legislature’s “Clean Waterways Act,” insisting…

ARTICLE REFERENCE: CS/CS/SB 712: Environmental Resource Management CS/CS/SB 712: Environmental Resource Management GENERAL BILL by Appropriations ; Community Affairs ; Mayfield ; (CO-INTRODUCERS) Harrell ; Albritton ; Bradley Environmental Resource Management; Citing this act as the “Clean Waterways Act”; requiring the Department of Health to provide a specified report to…

ARTICLE REFERENCE: Fractures as Preferential Flowpaths for Aquifer Storage and Recovery (ASR) Injections and Withdrawals: Implications for Environmentally Sensitive Near-Shore Waters, Wetlands of the Greater Everglades Basin and the Regional Karst Floridan Aquifer System Authored by Sydney T. Bacchus Sergio…

ARTICLE REFERENCE: $300 million scheme to send polluted water underground is untested and unwise By RANDY SCHULTZ SEP 25, 2018 | 4:10 PM South Florida’s most important public agency may make a big mistake on South Florida’s most important public…