Category: clean water
-
Lakepointe and the Pacific Legal Foundation
When it looks like a duck, and walks like duck, quacks like a duck it’s a duck. Or in this case a big polluting rubber ducky.
-
Summer Book Club: Paving Paradise Florida’s Vanishing Wetlands and Failure of no Net Loss.
Summer Book Club: Paving Paradise Florida’s Vanishing Wetlands and Failure of no Net Loss by Craig Pittman and Matthew Waite. What is no Net Loss? Is it even on our radar? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_net_loss_wetlands_policy “No net loss” is the United States government’s overall policy goal regarding wetlands preservation. The goal of the policy is to balance wetland…
-
When will our medical community step and do something about people getting sick and dying in the Indian River Lagoon
When will our medical community step and do something about people getting sick and dying in the Indian River Lagoon? I just want to say THANK YOU to our TC Palm reporters and also to Eye on Miami for actually paying attention to this issue and being a supportive voice and advocate for our Indian…
-
Atrazine: It brings bad things to life!
We spent a lot of time talking about the discharges to our rivers from Lake O. We talked fertilizer. We have a fertilizer ban. We really don’t talk about pesticides and herbicides and they are everywhere. Invisible to us. Today I want to talk about Atrazine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atrazine “Atrazine is a herbicide of the triazine class.…
-
Sea Level Rise in Miami and Politics. Let’s just say no to the “deniers.”
So what do we do when the people running are OUT OF TOUCH WITH REALITY? Do we vote for these people even though they are in your party? Don’t we help our own friends that are out of touch with reality?
-
Florida! Let the Good Times Roll!
“*SEVEN MONTHS OF DRINKING WATER: The amount of Lake Okeechobee water drained east and west and out to sea was enough to supply about seven months of drinking water for the nearly seven million people in Palm Beach County, Broward County, Miami-Dade County and the Florida Keys. Water plants in southeast Florida churn out about…
-
Someone Save Pahokee’s Old Prince Theater! Former Mayor was too busy obsessing.
Someone Save Pahokee’s Old Prince Theater! Former Mayor was too busy obsessing. When I lived in Palm Beach County Pahokee was that place way out there. I don’t even think when I worked in home health from Boca I ever went out there. It’s pretty torn up. Yet the people that live there are so…
-
Florida Back Roads: Kissimmee River Restoration
Florida Back Roads: Kissimmee River Restoration Ever since I’ve been involved with water issues I’ve heard about the restoration of the Kissimmee River. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kissimmee_River The Kissimmee River arises in Osceola County as the outflow from East Lake Tohopekaliga, passing through Lake Tohopekaliga, Lake Cypress, Lake Hatchineha and Lake Kissimmee. Below Lake Kissimmee, the river forms…
-
Sinkholes: Its the Geology stupid!
#Florida Sinkholes: Its the Geology stupid! So after I wrote my blog I was wondering if we get sinkholes here in Martin County. Will my house get get sucked up in a hole. Will I be calling 911 saying “I’m in the ground!” Yikes. I live on a ancient sand dune by the Indian RIver…
-
Florida Inc: It’s all about the water: muck fires and sinkholes
#Florida Muck Fires: What is that awful smell? http://www.tcpalm.com/news/local-news/martin-county/smoke-from-palm-beach-county-wildfire-smelled-throughout-treasure-coast_55076727 “Earlier Monday, smoke from a more than 10,300-acre wildfire in Palm Beach County could be smelled throughout the Treasure Coast thanks to winds out of the south. The fire began July 8 with a lightning strike in the Arthur R. Marshall/Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge, and is…
cyndi lenz 