This map was compiled by Waterkeepers Florida, which is an umbrella organization consisting of the fourteen Waterkeepers of Florida: Apalachicola Waterkeeper, Calusa Waterkeeper, Collier County Waterkeeper, Emerald Coastkeeper, Kissimmee Waterkeeper, Lake Worth Waterkeeper, Matanzas Riverkeeper, Miami Waterkeeper, Peace Myakka Waterkeeper, St Johns Waterkeeper, St Marys Waterkeeper, Suncoast Waterkeeper, Suwannee Riverkeeper, and Tampa Bay Waterkeeper.

Waterkeepers Florida Territories Map plus FDEP Territories and Disaster Map

What’s the different between Waterkeeper, Riverkeeper, and Coastkeeper? Nothing, really: all work for fishable, swimmable, drinkable water in their territories. All are trademarks of Waterkeeper Alliance (WKA) and refer to an organization and to a specific individual who is the spokeperson for the waterbody.

WKA is trying to standardize on Waterkeeper for all new ones. We had to argue to get Suwannee Riverkeeper because all the ones surrounding us are Riverkeepers, and that’s the term people hereabouts know.

The WKFL Territories Map is actually a layer in a WKFL Disaster Map. Other layers include Districts of the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP).

Map of FDEP Districts in the WKFL Disaster Map

Other layers include Evacuation Routes, Wastewater Facilities, Florida Gypsumstacks, and Hurricane Facilities of Concerns. All layers are turned on in this screenshot:

WKFL Disaster Map

In the WKFL map, two of us get clipped at the GA-FL line: Suwannee Riverkeeper and St. Marys Riverkeeper. This map also does not show the Suwannee River Estuary, which is part of Suwannee Riverkeeper territory.

Map: Suwannee Riverkeeper in WKFL Disaster Map

To see the background with rivers and roads like in the above map, you have to turn transparency up.

Here is a more complete map of the Suwannee River Basin:

Map: by WWALS of all public landings in the Suwannee River Basin

Waterkeeper Alliance’s map of the Suwannee Riverkeeper territory includes the Estuary and both Georgia and Florida:

Map: Suwannee Riverkeeper in Waterkeeper Alliance Members

To see it, go to this link, select Members, and pan and zoom.
https://waterkeeper.org/findyourwaterkeeper/

 -jsq, John S. Quarterman, Suwannee RIVERKEEPER®

You can help with clean, swimmable, fishable, drinkable, water in the 10,000-square-mile Suwannee River Basin in Florida and Georgia by becoming a WWALS member today!
https://wwals.net/donations/

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