Come hear about the plan to pipe treated wastewater from Jacksonville into the Suwannee River Basin: Water First North Florida (WFNF).

Thursday, April 2, 2026, Live Oak City Hall, 101 White Ave SE, Live Oak, FL 32064-3340.

Optional informal social time at 6:30pm, meeting starts at 7pm.

According to the facebook event by the Suwannee County Republican Party:

This Thursday, April 2nd, come discuss the Water First North Florida project, with SRWMD Board Member Larry Sessions, Suwannee County Commissioner Franklin White, geologist Dennis Price, and WWALS/Suwannee Riverkeeper Executive Director John Quarterman.

Our County Commission and those of all the surrounding counties have passed resolutions opposing the project, as has the North Central Florida Regional Planning Council.

So: What do we do now? Who will decide, and how can we influence future decisions? Come be part of the discussion.

https://www.facebook.com/events/819236594498207

WFNR @ SCRP, 5:30 PM, April 4, 2026, Live Oak City Hall, 101 White Ave SE, Live Oak, FL

That’s a bit of hyperbole about “all the surrounding counties,” since we have not yet heard from Hamilton, Lafayett, or Gilchrist. However, Madison and Columbia have passed resolutions, along with Suwannee County.

For the complete set, and much more about WFNF, see:

https://wwals.net/issues/wfnf

Larry Sessions represents the Upper Suwannee Basin and was reappointed June 2022 to the Governing Board of the Suwannee River Water Management District (SRWMD).

Contact: Larry.Sessions@SRWMD.org

Larry Sessions –SRWMD

Biography

Sessions is the City Manager of Live Oak. Previously, he was the administrator of the Suwannee Valley Transit Authority, a Suwannee County County Commissioner, and member of the North Central Florida Regional Planning Council. Sessions attended the United States Military Academy at West Point and served in the United States Army before receiving an Honorable Discharge.

Franklin White, District 5, Suwannee County Commission.

Phone: 386-249-1738

Email: commissioner5@suwcountyfl.gov

Franklin White –Suwannee County BOCC

Suwannee County District 5 includes part of the lower Ichetucknee and Santa Fe Rivers, as well as much of the Suwannee River.

Map: Suwannee Redistricting, 2023 –KSA Governmental Consultants

Dennis J. Price is a Practicing Geologist living in Hamilton County, who has long advocated recharging the aquifer through wells at overflow of wetlands at the bottom of planted pine drainage ditches.

See Aquifer recharge is needed, but Jacksonville pumping is the biggest problem –Dennis J. Price, P.G. 2026-02-22.

Dennis Price explains at the Dead River Sink –jsq for WWALS, 2018-01-27, 13:50:12, 30.5787100, -83.0523100

Suwannee Riverkeeper John S. Quarterman does advocacy for WWALS Watershed Coalition, Inc., a 501(c)(3) educational nonprofit corporation, of which he is also the Executive Director.

See for example Nobody at a Live Oak meeting liked Jacksonville wastewater into the Suwannee Basin 2026-02-05 the last time he spoke to this same group.

Suwannee Riverkeeper jon boat attempting to pull debris, 2024-08-25, 10:40:53, –Phil Royce for WWALS 30.8903800, -83.3212900

 -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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