Video: How Humans Affect the Aquifer, a WWALS Webinar by Dennis Price, 2025-06-19

Dennis Price, P.G., of Hamilton County, Florida, asked, “Are we just a water tower for Jacksonville?”

He showed us “the history of surface and ground water in the flatwoods in south Georgia and north Florida in the Suwannee River Basin. Historic water levels and how we have changed these levels. Changes beginning with forestry then farming, and population growth. Ideas for correcting the problems.”

[How Humans Affect the Aquifer, WWALS Webinar by Dennis Price, Are we just a water tower for Jacksonville? 2025-06-19]
How Humans Affect the Aquifer, WWALS Webinar by Dennis Price, Are we just a water tower for Jacksonville? 2025-06-19

This applies to the Floridan Aquifer proper and the other aquifers above it, all below the Suwannee, Alapaha, and Withlacoochee Rivers, the Okefenokee Swamp, and their tributaries.

Here is the WWALS video of this WWALS Webinar:
https://youtu.be/o4s1jPN0EVI

Some still images are appended.

Thanks to WWALS Board Member Janet Martin for organizing this webinar and for introducing Dennis.

Thanks to everyone who attended.

See the announcement of this webinar for Dennis’ resume and other background.
https://wwals.net/?p=67740

See also:

For other WWALS Webinars, see:
https://wwals.net/about/wwals-webinars/

They are usually on the second or third Thursday of the month, from noon to 1PM. After a brief introduction, the speaker has about 45 minutes, with the remaining time for questions and answers and discussion.

They are recorded, so if you miss one, you can see it later on YouTube. Here’s a WWALS video playlist:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKwQ5xfKf-QxWRGrV9iExlyXQIVnzOtPX&si=0Atnjwrm_ikyV-sh

These WWALS Webinars are free, but we encourage you to join WWALS or otherwise donate to assist our advocacy and educational mission.
https://wwals.net/donations/

WWALS Webinars are organized by the WWALS Events Committee; maybe you’d like to join that committee and help.

About WWALS: Since June 2012, WWALS Watershed Coalition, Inc. (WWALS) is an IRS 501(c)(3) nonprofit charity working for a healthy watershed with clean, swimmable, fishable, drinkable water.

Mission: WWALS advocates for conservation and stewardship of the surface waters and groundwater of the Suwannee River Basin and Estuary, in south Georgia and north Florida, among them the Withlacoochee, Willacoochee, Alapaha, Little, Santa Fe, and Suwannee River watersheds, through education, awareness, environmental monitoring, and citizen activities.

Our Watershed: The 10,000-square-mile WWALS territory includes the Suwannee River from the Okefenokee Swamp to the Gulf of Mexico, plus the Suwannee River Estuary, and tributaries such as the Withlacoochee and Alapaha Rivers as far north as Cordele in Georgia, as well as parts of the Floridan Aquifer, which is the primary water source for drinking, agriculture, and industry for millions of Georgia and Florida residents.

Suwannee Riverkeeper: Since December 2016, WWALS is the WATERKEEPER® Alliance Member for the Suwannee River Basin and Estuary as Suwannee RIVERKEEPER®, which is a project and a staff position of WWALS focusing on our advocacy.

Contact: Janet Martin
WWALS Membership Director
janetwwals@gmail.com
229-630-0541

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Stills

[Janet Martin Introduces Dennis J. Price]
Janet Martin Introduces Dennis J. Price

FAT

[Floridan Aquifer Transmissivity 2025-06-19]
Floridan Aquifer Transmissivity 2025-06-19

GD

[Groundwater Declines in Northeast SRWMD Region 2025-06-19]
Groundwater Declines in Northeast SRWMD Region 2025-06-19

WSS

[White Sulphur Springs Bathhouse]
White Sulphur Springs Bathhouse

BMB

[Bayfield Mitigation Bank]
Bayfield Mitigation Bank

SP

[SRWMD Wants to pipe Suwannee River water]
SRWMD Wants to pipe Suwannee River water

DRS

[Dead River Sink --jsq for WWALS]
Dead River Sink –jsq for WWALS

EM

[Potential Evaporation Map 2017-01-17 --NFRWSP]
Potential Evaporation Map 2017-01-17 –NFRWSP

AE

[Apalachicola Embayment, Gulf Trough, Georgia Channel, Suwannee Channel, by Southeastern Geological Society]
Apalachicola Embayment, Gulf Trough, Georgia Channel, Suwannee Channel, by Southeastern Geological Society

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