Kudos to the Green Cove City Council
GCS has now officially joined the band wagon against draining the St.Johns River. The article says most all communities in the NE region are against it. It's the entity of the SJRMD that is supporting it. Lets not come in after the decision has been made and rail against it. Contact your legislators and support your local goverment on this issue if you feel draining the River may bring on consequences that no one is truly qualified to fathom decades on down the line. There are so many variables in the eco system there is no expert that can really know. They just guess based upon their best information and experience. If you're ok with it then you can do the opposite of course. Related: Marsha's blog | login or register to post comments | printer friendly version | Tags: conservation | Growth | river | stjohns
Submitted by OneMann on Sat, 02/09/2008 - 2:34pm.
There are many reasons that draining the St. Johns River, as suggested to accommodate Central Florida development, is an issue regular citizens simply can't afford to let slip below the top of any area politician's priority list. This must not only be stopped, but stopped in a way that it sets a powerful precedent to guide any similar plans in the future. Finder, don't give up 'til they start the siphons. Even then, there might be ways to turn them off before damage is irreparable. Twenty years from now, I don't want to be telling my grandchildren what the St. Johns River used to be, Michael S. Mann People are talking about ...Here are the recent blog postings with the most comments. |
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Marsha,
I'm not sure that we can stop the draining of water from the river, but I'll certainly support every effort to do so. It just amazes me that these great scientific minds can't see that they are going to destroy a lot of the aquatic eco system by letting this happen.
Some of their statements like 'we don't know for sure what the impact is going to be but we don't think it will cause a lot of damage' are beyond my comprehension.
They can't figure out how much the salinity level will rise or how far upstream it will progress, yet they want us to believe that we should just let them proceed and wait to see what happens. It's like they think they can just throw a switch and change everything back overnight if they make a mistake.
Mike Heemer