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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.

I know there have been other blogs about this, but it seems like lately, every time I pick up the paper or turn on the local news, I see something else about taking about 250M gallons of water out of the river every day. All of this because uncontrolled growth south of us has put them in a position that they won't have enough water by 2013 (according to the news tonight).

Am I just being paranoid here, or does anyone else think that this is already a done deal. Kind of like our garbage collection contract.

I just can't believe that anyone actually thinks that this is s good cure to a self inflicted wound. The only thing I've heard from the ecologist and scientist is that they don't know what the damage would be other than killing off the sea grass.

An article in the TU online this morning reveals that central florida wants to tap the St Johns River in order to support future development. 

Do the powers that be have a good enough grip on the long term effects of messing with the enviroment to even be considering this?

Is this just another situation where the tax payers are going to foot the bill to line already very full pockets?

When you try to put 10lbs of bs in a 5lb bag will it not burst?  At some point does no one have the common sense when to realize that not everything should be developed? 

Very dangerous undertaking, for no true legitimate reason other then greed.