Category: environmental
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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…
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Water Inc: The Water Story of Bolivia. Aqua Para Todos
Water Inc: The Story of Bolivia Aqua Para Todos What do you even know about Bolivia? I know this: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid may or may not have died there. http://www.ksl.com/?nid=968&sid=17130775 Ernesto Che Guevara was murdered there October 9, 1969 in La Higuera, Bolivia when he executed by a firing squad that was…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Help Save the Everglades from more destruction, STOP ROGG (River of Grass Greenway).
Please sign the petition! (Even if you don’t live here you could visit) https://www.change.org/p/help-save-the-everglades-from-more-destruction-stop-rogg-river-of-grass-greenway Please share this page! Published on Jun 26, 2015 “These are all images from the ROGG plan that look to be on the path that will be removed. Please sign the petition we have on Change.org to stop this project. https://www.change.org/search?q=rogg…
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HERBERT HOOVER DIKE REHABILITATION STRUCTURE REPLACEMENT
I snitched this from my friend Tiki Steve. Tik and I also have a facebook page where we have been documenting for years! https://www.facebook.com/SaintLucieRiverofLight I had asked him a few months ago about what was going on in the construction world after I wrote https://cyndi-lenz.com/2015/06/10/acoe-and-the-herbert-hoover-dike-we-should-be-up-in-arms-together/ Are the people south of lake any safer today than…
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The Destruction of FLorida: DInner Island Ranch
A little while back Jules and I traveled down to STA 5 and 6 where we were dismayed to find not a lot of water going anywhere but over to US Sugar lands. One the way back we stopped here and hung out with the cows. Out here you are seriously out in the middle…
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where do we go now?
So last week I wrote a lot about the Pacific Legal Foundation. https://cyndi-lenz.com/2015/07/09/panthers-manatees-and-bears-oh-my/ Here we learned about the connection between our Florida Bear, Florida Panther and Manatees and the work these people to protect nothing. https://cyndi-lenz.com/2015/07/10/who-is-the-pacific-legal-foundation-and-why-are-our-panthers-manatees-and-bears-their-business/ https://cyndi-lenz.com/2015/07/11/bring-it-on-home-the-pacific-legal-foundation-and-martin-county/ Here we able to see that not only are they here in the universe but also very good…
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