Tapping the St Johns River

Marsha

As you know that money talks loudest. I say if a county wants more water to continue to overbuild than they should go to where there is plenty of water. The Atlantic ocean or the gulf of Mexico.

Build destilation plants to extract fresh water form salt water. Let the people that want it pay for it.

I have run these plants for years, They will extract a lot of fresh water.

Now you come to the next problem in the chain. If a lot of plants are built and are putting a lot of heavy salt water back into the ocean. Will that raise the salt content of the ocean along the coast enough to be detremental to the enviroment?

Like Clay county a lot of countys are trying to put 10 lbs into a 5 lb bag. My well pressure has dropped from 20psi in 1972 to 8 psi today. We are loosing a lot of water in the acquifier. Big buisness is making a lot of money and when the water is gone they will just move on and leave us with the mess. Your childern will have no water and will have to move somewhere else or pay to get the water from the ocean,

Thoes who give up freedom for security have neither

That's the name of the advertising campaign urging residents of Northeast Florida to be extra careful and take care of the "sick" St. Johns River. Yeah, it's my river until it gets sold to the highest bidder.  Typical government - asking us to carry the load at one end while creating more load at the other.

Let's not forget that what gets dumped down there will be floating through here, as our magnificent river flows north.  And volume loss of the local acquifer is a truly serious subject - another result of lack of local government vision and years and years of mismanaged growth.

Marsha,

I wrestle with this one a lot. On the one hand, I don't want water, roads, or nature to become political issues debated because each organizational body is elected through its constituent.

I don't like that the Water Management Districts are gubernatorial appointments and having taxing powers with no electoral recourse.

In my mind, the only way to curtail growth and those "water hogs" is through the electoral process.

If Gov. Crist was really the "people's hero" he claims to be, he'd undertake a fact-finding commission to address this very subject.

Where does Florida go from here in supplying water to its residents? You've got X-number of water districts operating independently of each other with no shared mission or goals.

Not a good sign.

Who's looking out for Northeast Florida's watershed?